Education and Liberty

Lawrence W. Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education, with offices in Irvington, New York and Atlanta, Georgia. The cause of liberty lost a stalwart with the passing last evening (September 7, 2010) of Ralph Smeed of Caldwell, Idaho, at the age of 88. No one in the Gem State was ever more

Today is Labor Day. Should classical liberals and libertarians celebrate this holiday? Or is it just another state sponsored holiday (which FEE founder and former president Leonard Read used to refer to as Hollowdays)? It is after all a day where we are supposed to celebrate the advances made by workers in the work place.

FEE President Lawrence W. Reed spoke to supporters attending an Evening at FEE in Irvington on August 7, 2010.

“Too much government? Just what would you cut out?” This is an extremely interesting question and is the topic of the Clichés of Socialism number 5. Leonard E. Read counteracts this cliché in a very interesting way, namely by flipping the question upon those who ask it. Read claims the question is extremely tricky because

The FEE archives are full of correspondences. Many of these letters contain interesting discussions on the economics, politics, and philosophy of liberty. Shifting through them it becomes clear that those in the liberty movement truly cared about obtaining a better understand of how society works. This letter from Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard Read on

Rose Wilder Lane discusses in views of money in this letter to Leonard Read dated September 16, 1950.

FEE President Lawrence W. Reed spoke to students attending Freedom Academy II in Atlanta, GA on July 30, 2010 about the important role character plays in the maintenance of freedom.

Many people are not happy with the current state of society and the economy. People want to help the poor throughout the world in the form of foreign aid, better house, better education, and providing economic growth. Action must be taken! Free market economists and other advocates of freedom are often viewed as villains by

The Austrian theory of the business cycle presented to students attending the Introduction to Austrian Economics seminar by Professor Paul Cwik. The Power Point presentation of the lecture — Business Cycles 2010.

The Austrian theory of the business cycle presented to students attending the Introduction to Austrian Economics seminar by Professor Paul Cwik. The Power Point presentation of the lecture — Business Cycles 2010.

The Freeman and The FreemanOnline.org editor Sheldon Richman discusses racial discrimination, the role of government and the libertarian view.

With the recent financial crisis macroeconomic issues are receiving more and more attention. Inflation is one of those issues. Many claim inflation to be the cause of the crisis; which has even given the Austrian business cycle theory attention from the media. The theory states that an increase in the money supply causes a false

Former FEE Economist and Founder of the Institute for Humane Studies F.A. “Baldy” Harper discusses inflation.

On July 9, 2010 at the FreedomFest Conference in Las Vegas (www.freedomfest.com), FEE president Lawrence W. Reed debated University of Nevada-Las Vegas economist Bernard Malamud on the subject of the New Deal policies of Franklin Roosevelt. This is a video recording of that 50-minute debate.

John Bianchi, a former FEE homeschool seminar attendee turned media-journalism student, recently attended FEE’s homeschool debate camp held June 28-30, 2010. Bianchi filmed and narrated the video profile of the event featured below. The video also appears on the World Journalism Institute website.

The full transcript from the July 21 “Idea Room” with Professor Steven Horwitz is now available at The Freeman Online.

The full transcript from the July 21 “Idea Room” with Professor Steven Horwitz is now available at The Freeman Online.

Dr. Robert Higgs speaks to students attending the History and Liberty seminar about the government expansion that imposes limits on individual liberty and economic opportunities.