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The Function of The Freeman
Editor’s Note: The Freeman began publication before it became part of the Foundation for Economic Education in 1956. Its first issue was published in 1950, with Henry Hazlitt, author of Economics in One Lesson, as an editor and FEE founder Leonard E. Read a member of the board of directors. What follows was originally part [...]
22Sep2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Real Revolution and You
Clear thinking and straight answers can help you to win the real revolution which goes on in the minds of men. Who are the real revolutionaries in the world today? Many would say, “The Communists, of course! Their day-and-night, around-the-world effort is the major revolutionary program of our times!” Others would counter, “No! Revolution means [...]
1Mar2006 | Ivan R. Bierly | 1 comment | ContinuedStill Neither Left Nor Right
We live in a time when virtually all political parties and candidates stand for the same fundamental ideological idea: state interventionism and compulsory redistribution.This also applies to the mainstream media. Even many who say they adhere to a pro-market view of things in fact turn out to be only more moderate advocates of government regulations and welfare-state programs.
1Jan2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Function of The Freeman
On the positive side, of course, our function is to expound and apply our announced principles of traditional liberalism, voluntary cooperation, and individual freedom. On the negative side, it is to expose the errors of coercionism and collectivism of all degrees—of statism,“planning,” controlism, socialism, fascism, and communism. We seek, in other words, not only to [...]
1Jan2006 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedBeware Democracy without Liberty
A fundamental fallacy of our time is that democracy is the open-sesame to peace, freedom, and prosperity. The recent elections in Ukraine, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, and the promise of a contested presidential election in Egypt, are hailed as evidence of a new dawn for mankind. And, indeed, maybe they are. But democracy in itself [...]
1Apr2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedWatering the Tree
Though my father is approaching 80 and is no longer able to do as much outdoors, a legacy of his retirement years is the orchard behind my childhood home. After my dad ended his trucking career, he took to heart an activity I would not previously have supposed to be of interest to him. His [...]
1Mar2004 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises: A Voice for Freedom and Principle
October 10 marks 30 years since the death of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. (He passed away at age 92.) For more than six decades in the twentieth century Mises was one of the leading voices for individual freedom and the market economy. During a time when socialist and interventionist ideas and policies seemed to [...]
1Oct2003 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedIs the Corporation a Free-Market Institution?
Is the modern large publicly traded business corporation compatible with a truly free market? The question itself may seem strange, even silly. Corporations are primary actors in what the media refer to as “the market economy.” Also, when the media refer to “the market,” they as often as not mean the stock exchange, which is [...]
1Mar2003 | Frank van Dun | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Fraud of Seat-Belt Laws
On the promise of reducing highway fatalities and auto insurance rates, seat-belt laws began to pass in state legislatures throughout the United States beginning in 1985. While such laws had been proposed before 1985, they were rejected by most state legislators since they knew the vast majority of the people opposed them. “The Gallup Opinion [...]
1Sep2002 | William J. Holdorf | 54 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics
Anyone wishing to answer the question, “Who is Ludwig von Mises?,” faces a formidable, if exciting, task. Where to start? Human Action, which runs close to 900 pages, is not something everyone has the time or inclination to plunge into, rewarding as that would be. Socialism, an extremely important book, addresses a relatively narrow aspect [...]
1Aug2002 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedLafcadio Hearn
Nearly a century after his death, Lafcadio Hearn is widely unknown. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896) is being republished this year, but much of Hearn’s work is out of print, and it’s hard to find Hearn on library shelves or in used bookstores. Yet Hearn had a singular vision, and was [...]
1Jul2002 | Frank Laffitte | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Bias Favoring Governments over Markets
The thrust of my columns could be summarized as follows: We would be better off increasing our reliance on the voluntary cooperation of the marketplace and reducing our reliance on government commands. This is not an idle assertion reflecting blind ideology or religious zeal, as some would claim. It is based on an impressive foundation [...]
1Jun2002 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomics on Trial
“In the excitement over the unfolding of his scientific and technical powers, modern man has built a system of production that ravishes nature and a type of society that mutilates man.” —E. F. Schumacher[1] The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, Updated In 1956, Ludwig von Mises countered myriad arguments against free enterprise in his insightful book, The Anti-Capitalistic [...]
1Nov2000 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Fountainhead: An American Novel by Douglas J. Den Uyl
Twayne Publishers • 1999 • 123 pages • $32.00 “But of course, if individualism really is central to Americanism, then The Fountainhead is the quintessential American novel.” This is the concluding sentence of Douglas Den Uyl’s wonderful discussion of Ayn Rand’s great novel, which has been at the center of the resurgence of interest in [...]
1Mar2000 | Tibor R. Machan | 90 comments | ContinuedNatural Society Revisited
Juliana Pilon is director of programs for Europe and Asia at the International Foundation for Election Systems and the author of The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in East-Central Europe—Spotlight on Romania. It is heartening that a fashionable new field known as “civil society studies” has recently emerged. It is surely a symptom of concern over [...]
1Jun1998 | Juliana Geran Pilon | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and the Car
Loren Lomasky teaches philosophy at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. This essay was originally produced as a working paper for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A longer version appeared in Independent Review. Years before the automobile evolved into a transportation necessity, before meandering mudded ruts were replaced by multilaned asphalt, pioneering motorists took to the [...]
1Dec1997 | Loren Lomasky | 2 comments | ContinuedEverything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner
Alfred A. Knopf • 1997 • 410 pages • $27.50 Robert Kuttner’s Everything for Sale carries the subtitle The Virtues and Limits of Markets. Unfortunately, Kuttner sees few, if any, virtues and many limits when it comes to free markets. Of course, it will surprise few that Kuttner holds this view. After all, he is [...]
1Nov1997 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | Continued-
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