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3 Libertarian Essays
These three essays by Daniel Klein explore several themes concerning the relationship between liberty and the self. What is the role of individual responsibility in a free society? What, if any, role should government have in protecting people from making decisions they may regret later? How does allowing us to... -
A Life with the Printed Word
A veteran reporter and columnist recounts his life, career, and the memorable politicians, writers, soldiers, and journalists he encountered. -
A Republic--If We Can Keep It
A collection of essays by FEE President Lawrence W. Reed and historian Burton W. Folsom, Jr. that surveys the economic history of the United States and the modern world. Along the way, they dismiss commonly-held fallacies and present the stories of the individuals who changed history and expanded liberty for... -
Anything That's Peaceful
This book is now published "on demand" please visit our Amazon store to purchase. The title of this book has become one of the most recognizable shorthand expressions for the fundamental ideas of classical liberalism and free markets. Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, wrote a number... -
Assurance and Trust in a Great Society
Assurance and Trust in a Great Society is an Occasional Paper to be published by the Foundation for Economic Education in 1999. It contains: Introduction Trust for Hire: Voluntary Remedies for Quality and Safety Credit Information Reporting: Why Free Speech is Vital to Social Accountability and Consumer Opportunity Quality and... -
Austrian Economics: An Anthology
These essays, compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves, explain the historical foundations of the Austrian school as told by some of the most prominent Austrian Economists. This collection also explains what makes the Austrian approach unique. Topics include the history of Austrian Economics, the Theory of Subjective Value, and the epistemology... -
Bankers and Regulators
This collection of essay, edited by former FEE president Hans Sennholz, explores the ideas behind banking regulation. These essays cover topics such as the Federal Reserve System, the gold standard, deposit insurance, debt, credit, the International Monetary Fund, and fractional reserves. -
Cogitations
Cogitations is a collection of some of the more memorable quotes from the libertarian philosopher and writer Albert Jay Nock. -
Critique of Interventionism
These essays by Ludwig Von Mises explain the problems that arise when the state vies for more and more control over the economy. Mises goes on to explain the deleterious effects of state intervention by discussing its impact on wages, prices, unemployment, and inflation. -
Economic Freedom and Interventionism
Mises was the greatest economist of this century, and a prolific writer, whose probing articles appeared scattered in scores of journals, great and small. In this outstanding collection, Mises scholar Bettina Greaves rescues 47 of his vintage essays from previous obscurity. They range from Mises’ thoughts on the economic requirements... -
Economic Harmonies
An inspiring exposition of the natural harmony that results when people are free to pursue their individual interests. Bastiat uncovers a great truth: there is no inherent antagonism between the welfare of one and the welfare of all. In a free-market society all people can live in peace and prosperity.... -
Economic Sophisms
This book is now being printed "on demand", please visit our Amazon store to purchase. Bastiat was a French liberal of the 19th century and perhaps the best popularizer of free market economics ever. This collection centers around his criticisms of protectionism and defenses of free trade. He takes on... -
Economics in One Lesson
This primer on economic principles brilliantly analyzes the seen and unseen consequences of political and economic actions. In the words of F.A. Hayek, there is no other modern book from which the intelligent layman can learn so much about the basic truths of economics in so short a time. -
Economics of a Pure Gold Standard
This book is now available at FEE's Amazon store and in Kindle edition. The case for returning to a gold standard has usually been made on a political, not economic basis. In this new edition of his classic work, Mark Skousen introduces the key concepts and research showing the case for gold from... -
Faith of our Fathers
This collection of essays from The Freeman explores the relationship between the Judeo-Christian tradition and the free society. The topic areas covered include the influence of religious belief on the Founders, the moral and religious sources of the rights of man, and how understanding the spiritual foundations of the free... -
Foundations of American Constitutional Government
This volume contains over 20 essays, all previously published in The Freeman, that discuss the history, operation, and underlying ideas of the US constitution. Covering areas from natural law, to judicial review, to federalism, it offers a wide variety of topics and perspectives on the nature and functioning of this... -
Foundations of Morality
In this impressive work Henry Hazlitt explores the proper foundation of morality, offering a unified theory of laws, morals, and manners. In his forward to this edition, noted economist Leland Yeager writes that The Foundations of Morality “provides . . . the soundest philosophical basis for the humane society that... -
Free to Try
The freedom to engage in entrepreneurship, and the benefits that entrepreneurs create for all of us, are the main theme of this group of previously published Freeman essays, which includes short pieces by Ludwig von Mises and Israel Kirzner among other well-known names. A number of contemporary authors have contributions... -
Great Myths of the Great Depression by Lawrence W. Reed
Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era. In this essay based on a popular lecture, Foundation for Economic Education President Lawrence... -
Human Action (Hardcover)
“This is Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, the magisterial contribution in which he develops his flagrantly controversial philosophy of the social sciences, his brilliant entrepreneurial theory of the market process, and his devastatingly consistent classical liberal perspective on political economy, into an overarching system of extraordinarily impressive scope. Human Action...



















