Free Market Economics · A Basic Reader by Greaves, Bettina Bien -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Preface Table of Contents General Introduction

1. Economics for Boys and Girls By Leonard E. Read Footnotes

What is Economics?

2. Something for Nothing? By Mark C. Schinnerer 3. The Broken Window By Henry Hazlitt 4. The Individual In Society By Ludwig von Mises Footnotes

The Nature of the Individual— Values and Actions

5. The Biology of Behavior By Roger J. Williams 6. The Only Kind of People There Are By Roger J. Williams 7. The Unknown Quantity By Madelyn Shepard Hyde 8. Freedom’s Theory of Value By Leonard E. Read Footnotes

Private Property and Exchange

9. Property By James Madison 10. Letter to His Stepbrother By Abraham Lincoln 11. Property Rights and Human Rights By Paul L. Poirot 12. Who Conserves Our Resources? By Ruth Shallcross Maynard 13. The War on Property By Paul L. Poirot Footnotes

Social Cooperation and the Market

14. Free Will and the Market Place By Frank Chodorov 15. I, Pencil By Leonard E. Read Footnotes

Prices, Pricing

16. Cost-Plus Pricing By Paul L. Poirot 17. Charging “All The Traffic Will Bear!” By Leonard E. Read 18. How Should Prices Be Determined? By Henry Hazlitt Footnotes

Savings, Tools and Production

19. Letter to His Grandson By Fred I. Kent 20. Technological Status By John W. Campbell 21. Where Karl Marx Went Wrong By Samuel B. Pettengill 22. The Great Mistake of Karl Marx By Benjamin F. Fairless 23. The Role of Savings By Brian Summers 24. Tools By Jasper E. Crane 25. The Liberation of Women By Bettina Bien Greaves 26. Industrialism: Friend or Foe? By V. Orval Watts 27. The Economic Role of Saving And Capital Goods By Ludwig von Mises Footnotes

The Entrepreneur and the Profit and Loss System

28. If Men Were Free to Try By John C. Sparks 29. “For the Good of Others” By Leonard E. Read 30. Food From Thought By Charles W. Williams 31. Windfall Profits By Robert G. Anderson 32. The Elite Under Capitalism By Ludwig von Mises 33. Profits By Hans F. Sennholz 34. Why Speculators? By Percy L. Greaves, Jr. Footnotes

Labor, Wages and Employment

Money, Credit and Banking

42. Million Dollar Dream By Employers' Assn. of Chicago 43. Not Worth a Continental By Pelatiah Webster 44. The Value of Money By Hans F. Sennholz 45. The Gold Problem By Ludwig von Mises 46. How Much Money? By Percy L. Greaves, Jr. 47. Back to Gold? By Henry Hazlitt 48. Eternal Love By Lawrence Noonan Footnotes

Competition, “Big Business,” and Monopoly

49. The Cow in the Apartment By Burton Rascoe 50. Freedom to Shop Around By Hart Buck 51. Six Misconceptions About Consumer Welfare By Joel Dean 52. Is Economic Freedom Possible? By Benjamin A. Rogge 53. The Phantom Called “Monopoly” By Hans F. Sennholz 54. Advertising By Israel M. Kirzner Footnotes

Interregional Trade

55. The Candlemakers’ Petition By Frederic Bastiat 56. Free Trade: Domestic/Foreign By Dean Russell 57. On Foreign Trade By David Ricardo 58. Foreign Investment vs. Foreign Aid By Henry Hazlitt 59. Restrictions on International Trade By W. M. Curtiss 60. The Failure of International Commodity Agreements By Karl Brandt Footnotes

History of Economic Thought

Capitalism/The Hampered Market/Socialism

67. A King of Long Ago By Lewis Love 68. The Communist Idea, 1 By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 69. The Communist Idea, II By Earl Browder 70. A Lesson in Socialism By Thomas J. Shelly 71. The Tale of the Little Red Hen By W. A. Paton 72. The Beetle and the Centipede By W. A. Paton 73. Not Yours to Give By David Crockett 74. Intervention Leads to Total Control By Gustavo R. Velasco Footnotes

Economic History

75. Food Control During Forty-six Centuries By Mary G. Lacy 76. How to End Poverty By Dean Russell 77. American Communism By Percy L. Greaves, Jr. 78. Facts About the “Industrial Revolution” By Ludwig von Mises 79. Progress or Regress? By Hans F. Sennholz Footnotes

Summary

80. Hello! By Joan Wilke 81. Free Market Disciplines By Leonard E. Read Footnotes

Glossary Annotated Index of Authors