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.

Sowing the Wind: Essays and Articles on Popular Economic Policies that Make Matters Worse

The world we live in today is a global economy. Entrepreneurs, traders, and investors are always searching for opportunities to better serve consumers. As a result, we are all interconnected. When the United States sneezes, so to speak, China, Argentina, or Mexico catches cold. In our economy of complex interrelationships, economic crises with wide-ranging consequences [...]

12Jul2010 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | Continued

Friedrich Hayek

In this first full-length biography of Friedrich Hayek—economist, thinker, Nobel laureate, and political philosopher of the rule of law, liberty, and limited government—Alan Ebenstein offers a veritable intellectual travelogue of Hayek’s journey through life. As a student, we learn, Hayek was mildly socialist. However, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises’s devastating critique, Socialism(1922), “fundamentally altered [his] [...]

30Jun2010 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | Continued

Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal

“He who wants to improve conditions must propagate a new mentality, not merely a new institution.” –Ludwig von Mises, New York Times, January 1942 Invisible Hands by Kim Phillips-Fein, professor of American history at New York University’s Gallatin School, is a well-researched and thorough account of resistance to government economic domination. It’s also a veritable [...]

24Feb2010 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 3 comments | Continued

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 [...]

19Aug2009 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | Continued

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 [...]

1Nov2004 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | Continued

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. [...]

1Jun2004 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | Continued

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 [...]

1Oct2001 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | Continued

The Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor

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 the United States enter the war on the side of England. He [...]

1Dec2000 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 1 comment | Continued

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 | 2 comments | Continued

Leonard E. Read, Crusader

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, in the depth of the Depression, he became manager of the Western Division [...]

1Sep1998 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | Continued

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 | 1 comment | Continued

FEE 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 [...]

1May1996 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 1 comment | Continued

Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth

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 of the best and the brightest. We know about the thugs and sadists who surrounded Adolf [...]

1Mar1996 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 1 comment | Continued

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 [...]

1Nov1995 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 18 comments | Continued

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 [...]

1Sep1995 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

1Aug1995 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | Continued

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 | Continued
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