The Free Market and its Enemies

The Free Market and its Enemies

In the summer of 1951, Ludwig von Mises delivered a series of lectures at FEE. Bettina Bien Greaves, a FEE staff member at that time, took down Mises' lectures in shorthand and faithfully transcribed them into a full manuscript. It has remained unpublished until now. FEE proudly makes these lectures available to a new generation. For readers already familiar with some of Mises's works, these lectures at FEE offer a glimpse of Mises the teacher. For readers not familiar with his writings, these lectures offer an excellent starting point. Here Mises summarizes many of the central themes he developed in Human Action. Topics discussed include the crucial distinction between natural and social sciences; the fallacies of Marxism; the disastrous effects of inflation on the economy; the necessity of a stable monetary system backed by the gold standard; and the relationship between capitalism and human progress.

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