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. […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
CONTENTS I. ECONOMICS The Free Market Perils of the Free Market, National and International Gaining the Free Market Fighting Fires Privately An Introduction to Value Theory Agriculture Improving the World’s Diet Is a Tremendous Problem The Food Situation The Government’s Agricultural Policy and Inflation Agriculture’s Sacred Seventh Inflation and Taxes Are Price Controls Necessary for the “Unprotected”? Stand-by Controls A […]
CONTENTS Tribute by Charles G. Koch 1 Reminiscence by Marguerite K. Harper 5 Introduction by Paul L. Poirot 13 1. The Crisis ofthe Free Market 19 II. High Prices 131 III. Liberty: A Path to Its Reeovery 205 IV. Why Wages Rise 337 About the Author 436 About the Institute 437 The Writings of F. […]
Journal of Libertarian Studies Volume 16, no. 2 (Spring 2002), pp. 139–161 2002 Ludwig von Mises Institute http://www.mises.org THE CONSOLIDATION OF STATE POWER VIA RECONSTRUCTION, 1865–1890 by: Thomas J. DiLorenzo All radical schemes to reconstruct the South entailed some more or less permanent expansion of central state activity and expenditures. – Richard Bensel, Yankee Leviathan […]
by Gustave de Molinari The introduction to this stunning work is by Murray Rothbard, who calls French radical Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) the great innovator in the market provision of security. Indeed, he might be regarded as the first proponent of what is called anarcho-capitalism. Molinari was steeped in the old liberal worldview of Bastiat and […]
Frank Chodorov was a journalist of the Old Right with an extraordinary writing ability. He was also a top-notch intellectual figure who has been tragically neglected. This collection might be his best. Among the smashing essays here are: “Isolationism,” which is his defense of the great American tradition (if you have hesitated to call yourself […]
Frank Chodorov was an extraordinary thinker and writer, and hugely influential in the 1950s. He wrote what became an American classic arguing that the income tax, more than any other legislative change in American history, made it possible to violate individual rights, one of the founding principles. He argues that income taxes are different from other […]
This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov‘s most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meaning of his own Jewishness to his life and beliefs. His piece on what educational […]
By Andrew P. Napolitano May 23, 2013 A few weeks ago, President Obama advised graduates at Ohio State University that they need not listen to voices warning about tyranny around the corner, because we have self-government in America. He argued that self-government is in and of itself an adequate safeguard against tyranny, because voters can […]
By Andrew P. Napolitano July 4, 2013 Do you have more personal liberty today than on the Fourth of July 2012? When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he used language that has become iconic. He wrote that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among them are life, […]
