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September 2009

In this issue, The Freeman celebrates the enduring importance of Ludwig von Mises' masterpiece, Human Action, with ariticles from Peter Boettke, Israel Kirzner and others.

• Human Action as a Work of Art By Sheldon Richman
• In the Grip of Madness By Lawrence W. Reed
• The Rise of Big Business and the Growth of Government By Robert Higgs
• EFCA and Compromise By Charles W. Baird
• Competition Would Save Medicine, Too By John Stossel
• New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America By Robert Higgs
• The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives By Art Carden
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Economics By George Leef
• One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe By David L. Littmann
• Saving is Killing the Economy? By Steven Horwitz
• Human Action, 1949: A Dramatic Episode in Intellectual History By Israel M. Kirzner
• Human Action: The 60th Anniversary By Bettina Bien Greaves
• Human Action: The Treatise in Economics By Peter J. Boettke
• What Human Action Has Meant to Me: Reflections of a Young Economist By Peter T. Leeson
• The Case for Capitalism By Henry Hazlitt
• A Triple Whammy for Austrian Economics By Sanford Ikeda
• Transforming America: The Bush-Obama Stimulus Programs By Randall G. Holcombe
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