Other Schools of Thought

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

But no area of commercial property will be spared the bloodbath.

Whether one calls oneself a Communist, Socialist, New Dealer, or just plain "democrat," one begins with the premise that the individual is of consequence only as a servant of the mass idol.

Central economic planning and laissez-faire capitalism are completely incompatible concepts — by definition.

Simultaneous discoveries tend to be the rule rather than the exception.

In June and July 1952, Ludwig von Mises delivered nine lectures in San Francisco on Marxism and capitalism. 

The prevailing trend toward what Hilaire Belloc called the servile state will certainly not be reversed if nobody has the courage to attack its underlying dogmas.

Study of the past, it is assumed, discloses the shape of things to come. Any attempt to reverse or even to stop a trend is doomed to failure.

Consider our corrupt Federal Reserve System as the ultimate cause of our economic woes.

The works of Leonard E. Read, who founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, are now online at the Mises Institute.