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The House That Uncle Sam Built
Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke | | January 12, 2009 By Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best…
The Law
Frederic Bastiat | Books | January 1, 1970 “The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it!The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind…
The Romance of Reality
Leonard Read | Books | July 31, 1937 This is one of Leonard E. Read’s earlier works discussing the conglomeration of state power and the need to embrace the free market.
Ayn Rand on Anthem Foreword
Ayn Rand | Rand Letters | April 4, 1946 In this letter, Ayn Rand asks Leonard Read to review the foreword for her forthcoming book Anthem.
Ayn Rand on Finding Intellectuals
Ayn Rand | Rand Letters | August 1, 1946 In this letter to Leonard Read, Ayn Rand expresses her views on what an intellectual is and how important it is for organizations like FEE to recruit and promote them. [Disclaimer: The content of this letter does not necessarily reflect…
Letter to Leonard Read about the publication of “Anthem”
Ayn Rand | Rand Letters | August 14, 1946 Ayn Rand discusses the pending publication of Anthem with Leonard Read.
The Mainspring of Human Progress
Henry Grady Weaver | Books | July 30, 1947 Weaver’s book offers human liberty as the “mainspring of human progress.” The book begins with a series of puzzles about why we are so much better off than our ancestors and then explores why systems lacking liberty haven’t worked. The…
Lenin Was Right
Henry Hazlitt | Essays | September 22, 1947 In this essay Henry Hazlitt wanted to show the hidden costs of monetary interventions into the market system and how they are particularly destructive.
Liberty: A Path to its Recovery
F.A. Harper | Books | September 9, 1949 This 1949 book by Harper is a short and very readable overview of the concept of liberty, written at a time when liberty was under threat in all sorts of ways. He discusses three types of liberty: of thought, of…
Essays on Liberty
FEE | Books | January 1, 1952 This collection includes essays from some of the most important and influential libertarian scholars of our time. These essays cover a variety of topics, from price controls to individualism.
Mises on Inequality
Ludwig Von Mises | | February 24, 1955 In this previously unpublished letter to economist John Van Sickle, Ludwig von Mises explains his position on the relationship between income inequality and capitalism.
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt | Books | July 29, 1955 This primer on economic principles brilliantly analyzes the seen andunseen consequences of political and economic actions. In the words of
F.A. Hayek, there is “no other modern book from which the intelligent
layman can learn so…
On Freedom and Free Enterprise
Mary Sennholz | Books | February 20, 1956 A remarkable collection of original essays by F. A. Hayek, WilliamRappard, Bertrand de Jouvenal, Wilhelm Röpke, Henry Hazlitt, Leonard
Read, Faustino Ballvé, W.H. Hutt, Murray Rothbard, Jacques Rueff, among
others.
I, Pencil
Leonard Read | Books | September 28, 1958 “Eloquent. Extraordinary. Timeless. Paradigm-shifting. Classic. Half a century after it first appeared, Leonard Read’s ‘I, Pencil’ still evokes such adjectives of praise. Rightfully so, for this little essay opens eyes and minds among people of all ages. Many first-time readers…
