A Tribute to the Statue of Ellis Island
Today as we move boldly forward into the 21st Century, we have as our most important symbol, the Statue of Ellis Island. May we never forget its new meaning.
Big Government
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Human Inaction: Congress and Economics
It is well-known that bureaucracies, especially governmental bureaucracies, have an unparalleled ability to suffocate innovation. Perhaps not as well known is the ability of those same institutions to ignore systematically well-documented, empirically supportable precepts about how the world really works.
Liberty: Legacy of Truth
Wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, “Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.” The millions of despots, now in the driver’s seat, are swayed not by faith but by that type of ignorance displayed by witch doctors or medicine men and their...
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Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation
By special arrangement with the authors, the Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting...
The New Despotism
Nothing seems to have mattered more to such minds as Montesquieu, Turgot, and Burke in Europe and to Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin in the United States than the expansion of freedom in the day-to-day existence of human beings, irrespective of...
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Twilight of Authority
This classic occupies an interesting place in libertarian history. The author is a sociologist, one beloved by conservatives. But read closely: his view of what constitutes authority (legitimate authority) flows entirely out of the private...
Who’s Listening?
Listening to the truth always has fortunate results. What does my listening reveal? That learning the truth or spreading wisdom—education—is now and forever an in-taking, never an out-bursting procedure. It may be possible for me to see your...
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A New History of Leviathan
The essays in this book reveal how and in what manner the corporate state developed in twentieth-century America. They show how a sophisticated group of large corporate reformers managed to replace a freely competitive economy and make a new...
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Ten Thousand Commandments: A Story of the Antitrust Laws
From the author: This book is not for lawyers, but for people. Or, if that distinction sounds unfair to my legal friends, let’s say it’s for laymen. The lawyers may read it if they want to. I put the citations in for them. I have tried to write...
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Man vs. The Welfare State
In this 1969 work, Henry Hazlitt explains why politicians who promise salvation through government are dangerous.
