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Editor's Note

The study of freedom and presentation of the findings in a manner helpful to anyone who is interested is the objective of the staff and the friends of the Foundation for Economic Education. The studies are distributed, as completed, in the form of separate releases and as articles in The Freeman, a monthly study journal.

This is the sixth volume of essays on liberty, all of the selections in it having previously appeared in The Freeman, or in Mr. Read's Notes from FEE, between June 1958 and June 1959. The first five volumes of Essays on Liberty, covering earlier Foundation releases, are still available.

Permission is hereby granted to reprint these essays in whole or in part, except the following:

Inflation Is a Burglar by Samuel B. Pettengill

Emancipation by Machine by William Alvadore Buck

The Growth Objective from The Guaranty Survey

The Corruption of Union Leadership by Sylvester Petro

A Child's Diary by Rose Grieco

The Catastrophe of Confusion by E. Merrill Root


Published October 1959

Copyright 1959 by

The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.


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