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[May 1952] Along about 1935, in response to the so-called “challenge” of communism, America was blanketed by a literature of cryptocollectivism. There were neotechnocrats and “planners” by the score; the Keynesians and “middle-way” journalists were out like night crawlers after a vesper shower. If numbers and the sort of thing that passes for

[ My Years with Ludwig von Mises • By Margit von Mises • Ludwig von Mises Institute (2007) • 191 pages. This review originally appeared in the Freeman , 1977. ] Margit von Mises’s book about her husband, is, first of all, a deeply tender memoir of the human side of a genius. Though Mises was “Lu” to his devoted friends such as Henry Hazlitt and

“The free-swinging enterpriser, using capitalist savings, is the true hero of the war on poverty.” [The Freeman , 1973] The message of Henry Hazlitt’s The Conquest of Poverty is that his subject could have been dealt with in the past tense if it weren’t for the pernicious doctrine that “the state knows best.” Alas! the tendency to hand problems of

[The Freeman , 1970] On a recent journalistic junket to West Germany the group with which I was traveling had a mass interview with Ludwig Erhard, the former chancellor who, as Dr. Adenauer’s Minister of Economics in the first post World War II government of his country, was responsible for the “German economic miracle.” The talk turned to the

[The Freeman , 1969] If you want instant enlightenment, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is still the desired text. If you want enlightenment in great depth, there is Mises’s Human Action . But if you are looking for something in the “in between” category, Faustino Ballve’s Essentials of Economics: A Brief Survey of Principles and Policies

[Excerpted from the prologue to The Roots of Capitalism ]   In 1776 Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations , an economic treatise which had grown out of its Scots author’s preoccupation with the wider problems of free choice as a foundation of moral philosophy, was first published. That same year Thomas Jefferson, a man whose predilection for free choices

Spain, the Indispensable Ally - Hoffman Nickerson Controls Won’t Stop Inflation - Towner Phelan Did Marshall Prolong the Pacific War? (II) - Forrest Davis Nehru’s Three Voices - Hubert Martin; New Masks For Old - George S. Schuy Young Man in Revolt - Thaddeus

The Failure of American Education - Mortimer Smith Eastward - Hol Argus; Foundations and Superstructure - F. A. Voigt Slow Poison for the Young Idea - Felix Wittmer and Thomas Hunt How to Fire a Professor - Frank Hughes Natural Law and the Campus - Jack

Europe Turns to Freedom- William Henry Chamberlin The Weapon of Taxation - Towner Phelan Emmett Lavery’s Strange Crusade - Oliver Carlson The Moment of Decision - George E. Sokolsky Bob Taft’s Foreign Policy - An

John Chamberlain The Freeman December 1951