Our Mission: FEE’s mission is to offer the most consistent case for the “first principles” of freedom: the sanctity of private property, individual liberty, the rule of law, the free market, and the moral superiority of individual choice and responsibility over coercion.
Robert McNamara discusses what government is, what we can expect from it, and what we can do about it.
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Why do South Koreans have a higher living standard than North Koreans? Why can a person living in Latin America move to the United States and make 10-12 times as much as in Latin America? Matt Mitchell argues that the… Read the rest
Steve Horwitz, Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University, explains what Austrian Economics is and what Austrian Economics is not, clearing up some common misconceptions.
This video is based on Steve's essay by the same name.
Gregory Rehmke discusses money, inflation, gold, paper currency, banking, the Federal Reserve, the supply of money, Keynesianism, Monetarism, Austrian monetary theory, and more.
Here is a short video of Lawrence Reed explaining the havoc hyperinflation wreaked on Bolivia in 1985. This is part of a larger piece entitled Too Much Money, available from Izzit.
Dr. Peter Boettke (George Mason University and a board member at FEE) discusses what we have learned from the collapse of communism and the transition away from that system.
Mark Hendrickson from Grove City College discusses the complex world of regulation and intervention at the 2011 FEE Summer Seminars.
"Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free." Professor Chesterton tells the truth about income inequality.