All Posts Tagged With: "Bettina Bien Greaves"
Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
For decades the prevailing view among historians has been that because the American people were too stubborn and stupid to concern themselves with foreign wars, President Franklin Roosevelt had to lie for a noble cause—namely, waging war against imperialist Japan and Nazi Germany. Seldom have historians asked themselves why Americans would want to stay out [...]
30Nov2011 | Jim Powell | 5 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Can There Be Free Trade in a Mixed Economy? To the Editor: Although I don’t see any flaws in your arguments about the theory of free trade in your column for the April 2004 issue of The Freeman, you should at least acknowledge the distortions in most any nation’s economy because of government intervention and [...]
5Jul2010 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Are Corporations Islands of “Calculational Chaos”? According to Kevin Carson (“Hierarchy or the Market,” The Freeman, April 2008), a private business corporation is in effect “an island of calculational chaos in the market economy.” . . . Carson writes, “Those at the top make decisions concerning a production process about which they likely know as [...]
1Sep2008 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedCapital Letters
David Hume and Reason In the very title of his article in The Freeman of October 2007, Frank van Dun asks, “Can We Be Free If Reason Is the Slave of the Passions?” His article is uncommonly long and gauzy for a Freeman piece; and his citations to David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature are [...]
1Jan2008 | Frank van Dun | 0 comments | ContinuedReflections on The Freeman
“The Freeman has had a definitive influence in Guatemala, where a group of friends, inspired by FEE, founded in 1959 the Center for Social and Economic Studies, which in turn founded Francisco Marroquín University in 1971, dedicated to teaching the ethics, economics, and legal foundations of the free society. We are in debt to The [...]
1Jan2006 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Poor Definitions of “Deflation” and “Inflation” To the Editor: Contrary to Stephen Davies’s March column, “The History of ‘Deflation,’” traditionally and historically, “inflation” referred to a “large” increase in the quantity of money, “deflation” to a “large” decrease. These definitions were not scientifically precise, for what is “large” was always debatable. Moreover, the quantity of [...]
1Jun2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedA Salute to Bettina Bien Greaves
Bettina Bien Greaves is an extraordinary, unsung resource for liberty. Now FEE’s Resident Scholar, a FEE Trustee, Freeman Contributing Editor, and two-time Guest Editor, she has done so many things for so many people for so long, it’s past time to publicly acknowledge her myriad contributions. If you ask Bettina, she says she has only [...]
1Jul1997 | Jim Powell | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade, edited by Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
By the mid-1800s, socialists had initiated an attempt to show that the industrial revolution and concomitant rise of free trade had worsened the lives of British workers. Great Britain’s adoption of free trade internationally with the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 only made detractors more determined to show that a society built on [...]
1Apr1997 | Gene Smiley | 0 comments | ContinuedUnemployment by Legal Decree
Consider the person who is incapable of earning the legally-fixed minimum wage. Last year, when Congress was debating the question of a new minimum wage law, labor unions were strong in their praise of such a bill. When the new minimum of $1.00 an hour for workers in “covered” industries became effective on March first [...]
1Aug1956 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: An Economic History of England: The 18th Century by T. S. Ashton
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. 257 pp. $4.00. Despite the romanticism of folk tales, life was far from idyllic in the days when Jack-of-the-Beanstalk and his young contemporaries trudged along picturesque country lanes, leading the family cow or pigs to market. Conditions changed slowly in those times. Before 1700 life was pretty much the [...]
1Jul1956 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | ContinuedA Festschrift for Doctor Mises
Miss Bien is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. A milestone in the world of libertarian literature has just been passed. This event was the publication of a collection of essays, a Festschrift in tribute to Ludwig von Mises. Some of the world’s most renowned economists and leading liberal thinkers [...]
1Apr1956 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Growth of an Idea
Thousands of FREEMAN readers have had little opportunity to learn about the journal’s publisher—the Foundation for Economic Education. So this month, in the space usually reserved for Charles Wolfe’s report of current “News From Irvington,” the folks at FEE will try to present a clear over-all picture of what they believe and what they do. [...]
1Feb1956 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedLetters
Unquestionably, one of the most effective forms of communication is a thoughtful letter written to a person in answer to his own question. The staff members of the Foundation for Economic Education write thousands of such letters each year. Some of these are, in effect, short articles on “general interest” subjects not fully covered in [...]
1Nov1955 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | Continued-
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