Free Market Economics
Subtitle: a basic reader
By: compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves
Publisher: Foundation for Economic Education
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780910614566
Copyright date: 1975
Subjects: Economics -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: General introduction.; title: 1. Economics for boys and girls / Leonard E. Read; title: What is economics?; title: 2. Something for nothing? / Mark C. Schinnerer; title: 3. The broken window / Henry Hazlitt; title: 4. The individual in society / Ludwig von Mises; title: The nature of the individual : values and actions.; title: 5. The biology of behavior / Roger J. Williams; title: 6. The only kind of people there are / Roger J. Williams; title: 7. The unknown quantity / Madelyn Shepard Hyde; title: 8. Freedom's theory of value / Leonard E. Read; title: Private property and exchange.; title: 9. Property / James Madison; title: 10. Letter to his stepbrother / Abraham Lincoln; title: 11. Property rights and human rights / Paul L. Poirot; title: 12. Who conserves our resources? / Ruth Shallcross Maynard; title: 13. The war on property / Paul L. Poirot; title: Social cooperation and the market.; title: 14. Free will and the market place / Frank Chodorov; title: 15. I, pencil / Leonard E. Read; title: Prices, pricing.; title: 16. Cost-plus pricing / Paul L. Poirot; title: 17. Charging "all the traffic will bear!" / Leonard E. Read; title: 18. How should prices be determined? / Henry Hazlitt; title: Savings, tools and production.; title: 19. Letter to his grandson / Fred I. Kent; title: 20. Technological status / John W. Campbell; title: 21. Where Karl Marx went wrong / Samuel B. Pettengill; title: 22. The great mistake of Karl Marx / Benjamin F. Fairless; title: 23. The role of savings / Brian Summers; title: 24. Tools / Jasper E. Crane; title: 25. The liberation of women / Bettina Bien Greaves; title: 26. Industrialism : friend or foe? / V. Orval Watts; title: 27. The economic role of saving and capital goods / Ludwig von Mises; title: The entrepreneur and the profit and loss system.; title: 28. If men were free to try / John C. Sparks; title: 29. "For the good of others" / Leonard E. Read; title: 30. Food from thought / Charles W. Williams; title: 31. Windfall profits / Robert G. Anderson; title: 32. The elite under capitalism / Ludwig von Mises; title: 33. Profits / Hans F. Sennholz; title: 34. Why speculators? / Percy L. Greaves, Jr.; title: Labor, wages and employment.; title: 35. Bargaining / Paul L. Poirot; title: 36. Collective bargaining wrong in principle / John W. Scoville; title: 37. How wages are determined / Percy L. Greaves, Jr.; title: 38. Jobs for all / Percy L. Greaves, Jr.; title: 39. Wages and productivity / W. M. Curtiss; title: 40. Competition, monopoly and the role of government / Sylvester Petro; title: 41. The economics and politics of MY JOB / Ludwig von Mises; title: Money, credit and banking.; title: 42. Million dollar dream / Employers' Assn. of Chicago; title: 43. Not worth a continental / Pelatiah Webster; title: 44. The value of money / Hans F. Sennholz; title: 45. The gold problem / Ludwig von Mises; title: 46. How much money? / Percy L. Greaves, Jr.; title: 47. Back to gold? / Henry Hazlitt; title: 48. Eternal love / Lawrence Noonan; title: Competition, "big business," and monopoly.; title: 49. The cow in the apartment / Burton Rascoe; title: 50. Freedom to shop around / Hart Buck; title: 51. Six misconceptions about consumer welfare / Joel Dean; title: 52. Is economic freedom possible? / Benjamin A. Rogge; title: 53. The phantom called "monopoly" / Hans F. Sennholz; title: 54. Advertising / Israel M. Kirzner; title: Interregional trade.; title: 55. The candlemakers' petition / Frederic Bastiat; title: 56. Free trade : domestic/foreign / Dean Russell; title: 57. On foreign trade / David Ricardo; title: 58. Foreign investment vs. foreign aid / Henry Hazlitt; title: 59. Restrictions on international trade / W. M. Curtiss; title: 60. The failure of international commodity agreements / Karl Brandt; title: History of economic thought.; title: 61. The formation and function of prices / Hans F. Sennholz; title: 62. The consumer theory of prosperity / John Stuart Mill; title: 63. Of the damand or market for products / Jean Baptiste Say; title: 64. Marx's view of the division of labor / Gary North; title: 65. The fallacy of "intrinsic value" / Gary North; title: 66. The man who answered Marx / Dean Lipton; title: Capitalism/The hampered market/Socialism.; title: 67. A king of long ago / Lewis Love; title: 68. The communist idea, I / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; title: 69. The communists idea, II / Earl Browder; title: 70. A lesson in socialism / Thomas J. Shelly; title: 71. The tale of the little red hen / W. A. Paton; title: 72. The beetle and the centipede / W. A. Paton; title: 73. Not yours to give / David Crockett; title: 74. Intervention leads to total control / Gustavo R. Velasco; title: Economic history.; title: 75. Food control during forty-six centuries / Mary G. Lacy; title: 76. How to end poverty / Dean Russell; title: 77. American communism / Percy L. Greaves, Jr.; title: 78. Facts about the "Industrial Revolution" / Ludwig von Mises; title: 79. Progress or regress? / Hans F. Sennholz; title: Summary.; title: 80. Hello! / Joan Wilke; title: 81. Free market disciplines / Leonard E. Read; title: Glossary