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Why Wages Rise
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Author: F.A. Harper
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Category: Money and Banks
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. Basic principles always have a way of seeming simple. Yet if they be principles, they can no more be
Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery
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Author: F.A. Harper
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Category: Free Markets
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 to the Rothbardian view on the possibilities of society without the state. Nonetheless, this is an
The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 1: The Major Works
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Author: F.A. Harper
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Category: Free Markets, U.S. Economy
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 directed questions. For as Judge Learned Hand observed, “The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not
An Introduction to Value Theory
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Author: F.A. Harper
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Category: History of the Austrian School of Economics, Value and Exchange, Free Markets
Introduction The Austrian Value Concept Value as Relative Matter Profits in Every Exchange The Market Price The Authoritarian Substitute [This essay is from The Writings of F.A. Harper - Volume 2: Short Essays , pp. 39-51.] With interest in the “Austrian School” of economics increasing, it may be helpful to indicate some of the aspects of the
Liberty Defined
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Author: F.A. Harper
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Category: Entrepreneurship, Philosophy and Methodology, Free Markets
[ This address was given before the Mont Pelerin Society at St. Moritz, Switzerland, on September 4, 1957. ] There are times when one’s humility seems to go on vacation, as it did for me when Professor Hayek proposed tackling this topic for discussion. Then later when reality returned to plague the victim, there ended a beautiful, balmy sense of
The Omelet Has No Rights
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Author: F.A. Harper
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Category: Other Schools of Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, World History
March 1955 “Butch,” my young son, was making an omelet one morning and I was supposed to be supervising the project. But my mind was more on the United Nations as a symbol of hope — the hope for universal peace and the protection of human rights. As Butch broke the eggs into the bowl there came to mind a saying, popular among party men of the
What College — If Any
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Author: F.A. Harper
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Category: Other Schools of Thought, Education, Free Markets, Legal System
[From The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 2 ] August 1954 Two million students will soon pack their trunks and be off to college. The yearly cost of this gigantic enterprise of “higher education” is some four billion dollars — enough to deserve careful attention by those who will pay the bills. As parents, we have little direct control over its
The Greatest Economic Charity
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Author: F.A. Harper
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Category: Entrepreneurship, Philosophy and Methodology, Free Markets, World History
[From The Writings of F.A. Harper , Volume 2] A certain Talmudical philosopher once offered us this apothegm: The noblest charity is to prevent a man from accepting charity, and the best alms are to show and enable a man to dispense with alms. A profound observation! It deserves to be kept in mind constantly as we fumble along in attempts to do