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[Excerpted from Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation: A Synthesis of Several Lectures , compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves. This lecture was given at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).]   Government interference with the market and with money occurs ideally only in cases in which individuals are not prepared to do what they voluntarily

[This article is excerpted from Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation: A Synthesis of Several Lectures , edited by Bettina Bien Greaves. This lecture was given at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).] Introduction by Bettina Bien Greaves Upon the establishment of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, Ludwig von Mises

[Excerpted from Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation: A Synthesis of Several Lectures , compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves. This lecture was given at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).]   Human cooperation is different from the activities that took place under prehuman conditions in the animal kingdom and among isolated persons or

[Excerpted from Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation: A Synthesis of Several Lectures , compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves. This lecture was given at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).]   Everything that is done by a government against the purchasing power of the monetary unit is, under present conditions, done against the middle

I assume that you know how the banking system developed and how the banks could improve the services rendered by gold, by transferring assets from one individual to another individual in the books of the banks. When you study the development of the history of money you will discover that there were countries in which there were systems in which

Volume 18, Number 4 (Winter 1998)   An Interview with Bettina Bien Greaves Bettina Bien Greaves attended Ludwig von Mises’s New York University seminar, compiled Mises: An Annotated Bibliography, the major parts of which are now available on Mises.org here , and also edited several collections of articles. She is a senior Mises Scholar of the

Volume 14, Number 2 (Spring 1994) Brettina Bein Greaves discusses Ludwig von Mises’s young life in Vienna dealing with Socialism.

THE FREEMAN Letters to the Editor Thanks to Milton Friedman’s brilliance, charisma and diplomacy he became an ardent spokesman for many free market reforms in this country. And now Ivan Pongracic, Jr. (The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman, September 2007) gives him credit for convincing Fed officials that the Fed itself was

Relations with Japan had been strained for some time. The Roosevelt administration was fully aware of Japan’s dependence on imports. Yet, as we have seen, it had terminated America’s long-standing commercial treaty with her. After January 1940 Japan had to ask permission on a case-by-case basis whenever she wanted to import from the United States.

Ludwig von Mises’s Bibliographer, Bettina Bien Greaves, has passed away at the age of 100.  Along with her husband Percy, she attended Ludwig von Mises’s seminars at New York University, where she earned the respect and trust of Mises. She went on to be a vital assistant to Mises for the rest of his life, as well as becoming an accomplished