“Bureaucratic dominance does not merely lower material living standards or reduce profit opportunities. It crushes lives and dreams.”
Tag Archives: Foundation for Economic Education
Putting Bureaucracy First: Rachel Maddow’s Progressivism People Second.
Posted in Political Lunacy Also tagged Benito Mussolini, Facism, Keynesianism, MSNBC, Occupy Wall Street, Rachel Maddow, Sheldon Richmond, The Freeman Leave a comment
The importance of the right against self-incrimination.
The Free Life | Wendy McElroy Posted August 16, 2011 on THE FREEMAN “Taking the Fifth” – invoking the right against self-incrimination – is a mainstay of mafia movies in which heinous criminals hide behind liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Today guarantees such as due process are often portrayed as encumbrances that threaten [...]
Posted in Freedom Philosophy Also tagged Bill of Rights, Constitutional Rights, Fifth Amendment, Liberties, The Freeman, Tyranny, Wendy McElroy Leave a comment
America’s Economic Knowledge Deficit
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), one of the oldest free-market organizations in the United States, was founded in 1946 by Leonard E. Read to study and advance the freedom philosophy. FEE’s mission is to offer the most consistent case for the “first principles” of freedom: the sanctity of private property, individual liberty, the rule [...]
A Legacy of Freedom – A Video Tour Of FEE
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is proud of its sixty-three-year history of presenting the moral and economic foundations of a free society to audiences around the world. Our friends think of us first and foremost for our principles but for those who have visited our headquarters or attended a seminar there, the building from [...]
Posted in Freedom Philosophy Also tagged F. A. Hayek, Freedom Philosophy, Larry Reed, Ludwig von Mises, Wayne Olson 3 Comments
Our Battle Cry, “We Shall Not Be Experimented Upon!”
I am a big fan of Frederic Bastiat and in particular his book The Law. In fact, I put up five posts based on this classical work. Another recent favorite writer of mine is Sheldon Richmond the editor of The Freeman and “In brief,” at the Foundation for Economic Education. In his recent post, Richmond [...]
Posted in Frederic Bastiat Also tagged Clinton, Emanuel, Frederic Bastiat, Geithner, Obama Administration, Sheldon Richmond, Sibelius, Socialism, Summers, The Law 3 Comments
Are You Committed To Intellectual and Ideological Integrity?
Where do I compromise in my efforts to communicate the principles and ideas that guide me in my efforts to preserve and restore individual liberty? How well do I know the arguments, history and practice of freedom, its proponents, and its enemies? These questions, which I believe are critical to the restoration and protection of [...]
Posted in Ayn Rand Also tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Leonard Read, The Fountianhead, The Freeman, William Graham Summer 2 Comments
Human Action, 1949: A Dramatic Episode in Intellectual History
By Israel M. Kirzner: The Freeman • September 2009 • Volume: 59 • Issue: 7 A great book, it has been remarked, is like a great castle. It can be viewed from many different angles, each offering a unique perspective. Viewing Ludwig von Mises’s monumental work from the vantage of 2009 permits one to see [...]
History of Austrian Economics – Israel Kirzner
Dr. Israel Kirzner kicked off FEE’s Advanced Austrian Economics seminar with a terrific presentation on the history of Austrian Economics. This is a excellent opportunity to learn from one of Ludwig von Mises’s student’s who carries the torch of the Austrian School of Economics. Dr. Steve Hortwiz, another Austrian School economist, says of Dr. Krizner, [...]
Posted in Austrian Economics Also tagged Austrian School of Economics, Israel Kirzner, Steve Horwitz, The Austrian Economists 2 Comments
Freedom or Free-for-All?
Lawrence Reed became the president of FEE on September 1 2008. To honor the occasion, we reprint his first “Ideas and Consequences” column, which was originally published in The Freeman in April 1994. Imagine playing a game—baseball, cards, “Monopoly,” or whatever—in which there was only one rule: anything goes. You could discard the “instruction book” [...]
The Case for Economic Freedom – Part 1
Originally printed in The Freeman: By Benjamin A. Rogge • September 1963 • Volume: 13 • Issue: 9 My economic philosophy is here offered with full knowledge that it is not generally accepted as the right one. On the contrary, my brand of economics has now become Brand X, the one that is never selected [...]
Posted in Economics 101 Also tagged Benjamin A. Rogge, Economic Freedom, Economic Philosophy, free markets, Freeman, Freudian psychology, Individual Liberty, liberty, Moral Principles, Socialism, Wabash College 1 Comment
