Lawrence W. Reed

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Larry Reed on Maintaining Hope and Speaking Truth to Power

03/17/2020 Robert P. Murphy Lawrence W. Reed

Larry Reed makes the case for optimism in the face of oppression.

Authors Forum: A Primer on the Great Depression

03/13/2009 Lawrence W. Reed

Lawrence W. Reed discusses the latest edition of his primer, “Great Myths of the Great Depression.” Recorded at the annual Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 12 March 2009. Introduction by Dr. Mark Thornton.

Who Owes What To Whom?

12/06/2001 Mises Daily Lawrence W. Reed

Successful people who earn their wealth through free and peaceful exchange may choose to give some of it away, but they’d be no less moral and no less debt-free if they gave away nothing. It cheapens the powerful charitable impulse that all but a few people possess to suggest that charity is equivalent to debt service or that it should be motivated by any degree of guilt or self-flagellation.

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