Henry Grady Weaver

Articles

02/10/2012 Mises Daily Henry Grady Weaver

Most human beings cling to the ancient superstition that they are not self-controlling and not responsible for their own acts.

Freedom, Ownership, and Human Progress

04/18/2011 Mises Daily Henry Grady Weaver

For 6,000 years, men carried things on their backs. Then suddenly the forces of nature were harnessed to do the bidding of the humblest citizen.

Inventive Progress, Part 2

03/10/2010 Mises Daily Henry Grady Weaver

For thousands of years under the Old World concept of a static economy operating under bureaucratic control, human beings lived in hunger, filth, and disease. They worked ceaselessly at backbreaking drudgery to keep life in wretched bodies.

Publications

The Mainspring of Human Progress

03/15/1953 Henry Grady Weaver

What has capitalism contributed to civilization? It made it. And nowhere has it thrived so beautifully as in America, the country that threw off the static old world to make a new one rooted in progress and individualism. With incredible erudition

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.