Mises Search

Written by an adviser to FDR who helped assemble the president’s “brain trust”, After Seven Years is a must-read for anyone claiming to be a student of the New Deal. Written in the midst of man-made economic calamity, Moley supplies an insider’s account of the twists and turns in policy responses to the Great Depression, about which he for many

From the author: The people of this nation are today presented with a choice between two forms of political and economic life. One form is that of our traditions, in which individual liberty prevails and is guarded by “the long, still grasp of law.” The other is the dominance of the state in human affairs. With us the intrusion of the state is not