All Posts Tagged With: "Nazism"

The German Economic Miracle and the “Social Market Economy”

Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE.
This summer marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the post-World War II German “economic miracle.” When the war ended in Europe in 1945, Germany was in a shambles. Its major cities had been destroyed either from Allied bombing or urban combat. Millions of its citizens had died [...]

1Apr2008 | Richard Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – June 2007

  • Hitlers Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

    by Goetz Aly Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money
    by Timothy P. Carney Reviewed by Sheldon Richman
  • Income and Wealth
    by Alan Reynolds Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle What We Have Learned; How to Fix It
    by Henry N. Butler and Larry E. Ribstein Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
  • The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
    by Hugh Taylor Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
1Jun2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelts America, Mussolinis Italy, and Hitlers Germany, 1933-1939

By Wolfgang Schivelbusch Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling

1Jan2007 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Your Money and Your Life: The Price of Universal Health Care

Although often recognized as sacred, human life has not been considered the top priority in the hierarchy of values. Human beings have willingly sacrificed life to preserve honor or virtue, to defend the faith or the nation, or to protect family or the family’s livelihood (property). Civilized nations have, however, generally recognized the right to [...]

1Dec2006 | Jane M. Orient | 0 comments | Continued

Ludwig von Mises: The Political Economist of Liberty, Part 1

Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE.
Over a professional career that spanned almost three-quarters of the twentieth century, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises was without any exaggeration one of the leading and most important defenders of economic liberty. The ideas of individual freedom, the market economy, and limited government that he defended in the [...]

1May2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued

National Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945

Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., which recently brought from Berlin the exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945,” curated by Christian Pross and Götz Aly.
Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the [...]

1Nov1993 | Marc S. Micozzi M.D. | 3 comments | Continued