Archive for Bettina Bien Greaves
Contributing editor Bettina Bien Greaves was a longtime FEE staff member, resident scholar, and trustee. She attended Ludwig von Mises’s New York University seminar for many years and is a translator, editor, and bibliographer of his works.
Human Action: The 60th Anniversary
We are celebrating the 60th anniversary of a great book, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, by a learned man and a clear thinker: the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. It presents Mises’s understanding–after long years of study and thought–of how the market economy functions. It is a major contribution to human knowledge.
Interventionist ideas dominated [...]
Remembering Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt was one of a very special breed, an economic journalist who not only reported on economic and political events in clear and understandable language, but also made contributions to economics.
When I arrived at FEE in 1951, I was just a neophyte in the freedom philosophy. Hazlitt was a trustee, author of the bestselling [...]
Mises on Copyrights
The widespread reproduction and “sharing” of copyrighted music on the Internet led a friend to ask me what Ludwig von Mises would have thought about the situation. The more I pondered the question, the more I concluded that Mises would have considered this just another case where copyright law must play catch-up with new technology.
Many [...]
Book Review ~ Human Action
Hillsdale College Press · 2000 · 305 pages · $9.95 paperback
Reviewed by Bettina Bien Greaves
For years Hillsdale College has published annual anthologies in honor of Ludwig von Mises. In the beginning these were slim volumes, consisting only of addresses made at the college by visiting dignitaries. Since Richard Ebeling joined Hillsdale’s economics faculty and became [...]
Book Review ~The Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert B. Stinnett
The Free Press • 2000 • 386 pages + xv • $26.00
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese navy attacked the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. The following day, President Roosevelt described it as “a date that will live in infamy.” In spite of this country’s official neutrality, Roosevelt personally had been eager to have [...]
Market Money and Free Banking
“If we want to have money, it must be something that cannot be increased with a profit by anybody, whether government or a citizen. The worst failures of money, the worst things done to money were not done by criminals but by governments, which very often ought to be considered, by and large, as ignoramuses [...]
1Oct1999 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | ContinuedLeonard E. Read, Crusader
Bettina Greaves, resident scholar at FEE, joined the Foundation staff in 1951.
If you had known Leonard E. Read in the 1930s, you would probably not have picked him as a future crusader for the freedom philosophy. Charismatic, energetic, debonair, he was a businessman, an organization man, a Chamber of Commerce man. In 1932, [...]
It Takes a Market
To drink coffee I do not need to own a coffee plantation in Brazil, an ocean steamer, and a coffee roasting plant, though all these means of production must be used to bring a cup of coffee to my table. Sufficient that others own these means of production and employ them for me.1 –Ludwig von [...]
1Feb1997 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | ContinuedFEE and the Climate of Opinion
Mrs. Greaves has been with the Foundation since 1951 and presently serves as its resident scholar.
“The genuine history of mankind,” as Ludwig von Mises wrote, “is the history of ideas.” In this sense, history is made, although it is not planned, by men and by their ideas. We can see the power of ideas [...]
Book Review: Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth by Gitta Sereny
Alfred A. Knopf • 1995 • 757 pages • $35.00
Mrs. Greaves is FEE’s resident scholar.
Ever since the appearance in 1944 of F. A. Hayek’s masterpiece, The Road to Serfdom, it has been generally accepted that it is always “the worst” who get to the top in an interventionist/socialist society. But so do some [...]
How to Return to the Gold Standard
Mrs. Greaves, FEE’s resident scholar, bases this proposal on the understanding and recommendations presented in the writings of Hans F. Sennholz, Henry Hazlitt, Percy L. Greaves, Jr., and Ludwig von Mises.
There is no reason, technically or economically, why the world today, even with its countless wide-ranging and complex commercial transactions, could not return to [...]
Book Review: The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics edited by Peter J. Boettke
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. • 1994 • 620 pages • $149.95
Since the days of Aristotle, philosophers and other thinkers have been trying to understand how the world works and how to foster a peaceful, prosperous society. A big stride was made with the publication of Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics (1871), from which developed [...]
A Peek Behind the Old "Iron Curtain"
Mrs. Greaves is resident scholar at the Foundation for Economic Education.
In September-October 1994, FEE’s President, Dr. Hans F. Sennholz, sent me to Eastern Europe on behalf of FEE, to meet people who were interested in the freedom philosophy, economics, and the government. Through me, FEE offered them The Freeman and FEE’s other publications as [...]
Perspective: FEE in Eastern Europe
In the autumn of 1994, FEE’s President, Dr. Hans Sennholz, sent me to Eastern Europe on behalf of FEE. I visited Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. These countries of Eastern Europe had been devastated and impoverished for decades by the Communist regime. For 45 years the inhabitants had lived under the [...]
1Feb1995 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises (1881-1973): A Prophet Without Honor in His Own Land
Mrs. Greaves, Resident Scholar at The Foundation for Economic Education, attended Professor Mises’ seminar at New York University for many years and knew both him and Mrs. Mises well. The remarks attributed to Professor Mises in direct quotation marks are based on his own writings, interviews, and notes taken at his seminar and lectures.
An [...]
Book Review: The Ghost of the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane by William Holtz
The Ghost of the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane by William Holtz University of Missouri Press, 1993 • 425 pages. $29.95
Rose Wilder Lane was born on December 5, 1886. She was a fascinating person. For most of her life she eked out a precarious livelihood as a free-lance author, journalist, ghostwriter, and novelist. Yet [...]
Perspective: A Word From the Guest Editor
For many years I have been on the Foundation’s staff. When people asked me what I did, I would tell them, “I read, I write, and I look things up.” That about covers it. Occasionally I edited an article for The Freeman. But this is the first time I have actually edited an entire issue. [...]
1Sep1994 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | Continued-
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
