Archive for Percy L. Greaves Jr.
The late Percy Greaves was a free-lance economist and lecturer. His books include Understanding the Dollar Crisis and Mises Made Easier.
On Labor Unions
Mr. Greaves, economist, lecturer, and author of numerous articles and books, sewed with the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor during the preparation and passage of the 1947 revisions of the National Labor Relations Act, popularly known as the Taft-Hartley Act. Unemployment can be a dreadful condition. The inability to find [...]
1Dec1983 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Market Economy vs. The Welfare State
Why living standards decline in a society of factions fighting for “fair shares.”
1Jan1979 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedDoes Government Spending Bring Prosperity?
Our hope for future prosperity depends upon finding the correct answer.
1Jun1975 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 35 comments | ContinuedLower Interest Rates by Law
Control of interest rates is control of people, with highly harmful consequences.
1Dec1974 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedFrom Price Control to Valley Forge: 1777-78
A timely reminder of the sorry consequences of closing the market.
1Feb1972 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedHow Wages Are Determined: The Effect of Interventions
The market method of pricing services, and how various interventions harm everyone involved.
1Jul1970 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Much Money
Mr. Greaves is a free-lance economist and lecturer. Most people want more money. So do I. But I wouldn’t keep it long. I would soon spend it for the things I need or want. So would most people. In other words, for most of us, more money is merely a means for buying what we [...]
1May1965 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Much Money
Mr. Greaves is a free-lance economist and lecturer. Most people want more money. So do I. But I wouldn’t keep it long. I would soon spend it for the things I need or want. So would most people. In other words, for most of us, more money is merely a means for buying what we [...]
1Apr1965 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Speculators
There’s more than meets the eye to the recent closing of the Cotton Exchange, alleges Percy Greaves, as he shows the vital role of the speculator.
1Nov1964 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Science Called Economics
Mr. Greaves is an economist and free-lance writer. "It is no part of the task of science to examine ultimate questions or to prescribe values and determine their order of rank…. The simpler task of science is to develop a theoretical system of cause-and effect relationships enabling us to arrange our action in such a [...]
1Nov1960 | Percy L. Greaves Jr. | 0 comments | Continued-
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