#1 of Many by Leonard Read
The complete works of the great Leonard Read are going online at Mises.org, starting with Why Not Try Freedom (1958). It will take about a week. His number one passion in life was to spread the core message of freedom (the truth that society flourishes in peace and prosperity when not managed through coercive intervention) as far as wide as possible. Thanks to this online library, his message will now be universal and live forever. For more on his open-source vision, see this entry.
Comments (3)
patrick
Chapter 1? Come on Leonard!
(For those wondering, it's titled "Government--an ideal concept"...ideal just like getting a toothache candy convention, lol).
Published: March 12, 2009 1:46 AM
Jeffrey Tucker
It gets better. It was a pure accident of history that this one was the first. Many more to come.
Published: March 12, 2009 4:39 AM
N. Joseph Potts
Read founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), of which I have been a member for five years or so by now. ONE Read essay they haven't published in many years so far as I can tell is "Conscience on the Battlefield," (see http://www.fff.org/freedom/0991a.asp) which takes an anti-war stance notably lacking in FEE's posture since Read's death.
I've been wanting to see it online for a long time. I hope it has made it, now.
Published: March 12, 2009 4:28 PM