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F.A. Harper

Floyd Arthur “Baldy” Harper (1905–1973) was a Cornell University professor and member of the Mont Pelerin Society. He helped start up the Foundation for Economic Education, codirected the William Volker Fund, and founded the Institute for Humane Studies. At Harper’s death, Murray Rothbard wrote, “Ever since he came to the Foundation for Economic Education in 1946 as its chief economist and theoretician, Baldy Harper, in a very real sense, has been the libertarian movement. For all these years, this gentle and lovable man, this wise and Socratic teacher, has been the heart and soul and nerve center of the libertarian cause.”

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Articles

Capital As a Form of Charity

11/13/2017 Mises Wire F.A. Harper

Tools as a Form of Charity Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an act of charity. And further, I believe...

The Greatest Economic Charity

01/06/2012 Mises Daily F.A. Harper

[ On Freedom and Free Enterprise (1956)] When asked to contribute an essay to Professor Mises’s Festschrift, I was at first inclined to dip my pen in the well of humility and then lay it aside unused...

Government and Progress

11/23/2011 Mises Daily F.A. Harper

In the acts of government, a singleness of conduct is attempted that by its very nature defies the law of variation — the requisite of progress.

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Publications

Why Wages Rise

01/01/1957 F.A. Harper

From Harper’s Introduction: Wages are of prime importance in any advanced economy such as ours. They affect us all far more than seems evidenced in our concern about them. I shall deal with the wage problem in a manner that may seem oversimplified

Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery

05/28/1949 F.A. Harper

F.A. Harper was a leader in the libertarian movement from the 1950s and onward. Here is his early manifesto (1949), in which he reveals a sophisticated understanding of free markets and freedom but had not yet, as he later did, come around completely

The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 1: The Major Works

06/15/1978 F.A. Harper

From the Introduction by Paul Poirot: In these collected writings of F. A. Harper, concerned with liberty in the broadest sense, are to be found some of his conclusions. But the reader will also find throughout his works a series of carefully

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This Way Toward Equality

03/26/2019 F.A. Harper

Equalization of incomes can be accomplished only by moving down the road toward serfdom.

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