History
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The Marshall Plan: Fiction and Facts
The financial part of the Marshall plan was not the decisive factor in the West European recovery. What mattered was economic liberalization, relative monetary and fiscal stability, and the promotion of economic integration.
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The Imperial Presidency Embodies Political and Economic Hubris
What is needed is a much smaller government so that free individuals can be freer to make more of their own decisions in guiding their own lives rather than a big government with an “imperial” president arrogantly attempting to command and control them.
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Play With Competitive Forces at Your Peril
In post-war Germany, Ludwig Erhard made the restoration of free trade a top priority. Above all, this meant getting rid of tariff walls.
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The Reason We Love The Nutcracker
What theatergoers don’t entirely realize is that they are watching something even more wonderful than what they see. In this one ballet, we gain a picture of a prosperous world that emerged in the late nineteenth century, was shortly shattered by war and revolution, and then was nearly killed off by the political and ideological…
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E.C. Harwood: A Biographical Sketch of the Founder of American Institute for Economic Research, by Katy Delay (full text)
Harwood could not remain silent and still call himself a man of honor. He established AIER in response, an institution dedicated to the fight for integrity, sound money, and free markets. The confrontations with Washington continued over the decades.
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Ludwig von Mises on Liberalism, Nationalism, and Self-Determination
There is a solution to the rise of nationalism. That solution is self-determination. It would have worked after the First World War, had it been tried, and it will work today.
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Two Treatises On Competitive Currency and Banking by Lysander Spooner (full text), edited by Phil Magness
By making these lost Spooner treatises available again after more than a century in seclusion, it is my hope that they will both further our historical understanding of the time in which they were written and offer relevant insights to the evolution of economic ideas in the present day.
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Cause and Control of the Business Cycle (full text), Foreword by Edward Stringham
This remarkable book was published in 1932. E.C. Harwood’s ideas about inflation and the business cycle have relevance for our knowledge and for policy discussions today.
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Presidential Hubris: “Let Me Run the Country”
That the President’s words were just passed over without comment or criticism tragically shows how far we’ve strayed from the ideas and ideals on which the country was founded.
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The Charming Luxury of Train Travel
The Hudson train station is especially charming. Indoors features lots of woodwork with a ticket window with iron bars and an old sign above it that says: TICKETS. There are benches around the periphery. You expect to meet an old guy there who is complaining about the policies of President Harding.
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The Marshall Plan: Fiction and Facts
The financial part of the Marshall plan was not the decisive factor in the West European recovery. What mattered was economic liberalization, relative monetary and fiscal stability, and the promotion of economic integration.
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The Imperial Presidency Embodies Political and Economic Hubris
What is needed is a much smaller government so that free individuals can be freer to make more of their own decisions in guiding their own lives rather than a big government with an “imperial” president arrogantly attempting to command and control them.
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•
Play With Competitive Forces at Your Peril
In post-war Germany, Ludwig Erhard made the restoration of free trade a top priority. Above all, this meant getting rid of tariff walls.
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•
The Reason We Love The Nutcracker
What theatergoers don’t entirely realize is that they are watching something even more wonderful than what they see. In this one ballet, we gain a picture of a prosperous world that emerged in the late nineteenth century, was shortly shattered by war and revolution, and then was nearly killed off by the political and ideological…
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•
E.C. Harwood: A Biographical Sketch of the Founder of American Institute for Economic Research, by Katy Delay (full text)
Harwood could not remain silent and still call himself a man of honor. He established AIER in response, an institution dedicated to the fight for integrity, sound money, and free markets. The confrontations with Washington continued over the decades.
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•
Ludwig von Mises on Liberalism, Nationalism, and Self-Determination
There is a solution to the rise of nationalism. That solution is self-determination. It would have worked after the First World War, had it been tried, and it will work today.
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•
Two Treatises On Competitive Currency and Banking by Lysander Spooner (full text), edited by Phil Magness
By making these lost Spooner treatises available again after more than a century in seclusion, it is my hope that they will both further our historical understanding of the time in which they were written and offer relevant insights to the evolution of economic ideas in the present day.
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•
Cause and Control of the Business Cycle (full text), Foreword by Edward Stringham
This remarkable book was published in 1932. E.C. Harwood’s ideas about inflation and the business cycle have relevance for our knowledge and for policy discussions today.
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•
Presidential Hubris: “Let Me Run the Country”
That the President’s words were just passed over without comment or criticism tragically shows how far we’ve strayed from the ideas and ideals on which the country was founded.
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•
The Charming Luxury of Train Travel
The Hudson train station is especially charming. Indoors features lots of woodwork with a ticket window with iron bars and an old sign above it that says: TICKETS. There are benches around the periphery. You expect to meet an old guy there who is complaining about the policies of President Harding.