This remarkable volume is the first full-scale revision of the official history of the U.S. executive state. It traces the progression of power exercised by American presidents from the early American Republican up to the eventual reality of the power-hungry Caesars which later appear as president in American history. Contributors examine the usual judgments of the historical profession to show the ugly side of supposed presidential greatness. 
The mission inherent in this undertaking is to determine how the presidency degenerated into the office of American Caesar. Did the character of the man who held the office corrupt it, or did the power of the office, as it evolved, corrupt the man? Or was it a combination of the two? Was there too much latent power in the original creation of the office as the Anti-Federalists claimed? Or was the power externally created and added to the position by corrupt or misguided men? 
Contributors include George Bittlingmayer, John V. Denson, Marshall L. DeRosa, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Lowell Gallaway, Richard M. Gamble, David Gordon, Paul Gottfried, Randall G. Holcombe, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Michael Levin, Yuri N. Maltsev, William Marina, Joseph Salerno, Barry Simpson, Joseph Stromberg, H. Arthur Scott Trask, Richard Vedder, and Clyde Wilson.

Reassessing the Presidency : The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom

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HAZLITT, HENRY

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Henry Hazlitt knew the works of Mises as well as anyone but he was not mainly a theoretician. He was a financial journalist, commentator, and interpreter of current events. In this sense, he was one of a kind: a learned economist with both feet in the real world of politics, financial markets, and the economics of everyday life. The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve It , newly in print in hardcover at a low price, is his masterpiece on money. The book reappears just in time: we are in the midst of an inflation crisis even if the effects are not yet fully felt. By inflation, he didn't mean rising prices. He meant the tendency of government and the central bank to print money in pursuit of prosperity. In this sense, no book could be more directly related to our own times, as Bernanke and Company use and abuse the power of the Fed as never before. He begins with an overview of what inflation is and covers the abysmal record of government money management. He clearly explains the cause and effect: first comes the printing and then come the business cycles and price increases. He explains that the only real cure for all of the effects is to treat the cause: end the government's power to print. For this reason, Hazlitt favors a gold standard. The first section is perfect as an introduction to the topic but the second section is enormously valuable for anyone who wants more depth on the topic. He explains what is wrong with monetarism, what is wrong with demand-side management, what is wrong with the Phillips Curve, what is wrong with theories about "unused capacity," what is wrong with government stimulus packages, what is wrong with inflation indexing, why inflation tends to be global now, and he even adds a very thoughtful critique of Hayek's proposal for free choice among currencies: it does go nearly far enough to reform money. From a readers point of view, Hazlitt's book is pure pleasure. As Mencken said of him, he was the only economist of his generation who could really write. He is clear as a bell, and why? Because he had a passion for explaining economics to every living person. He did not think that economics should be left to the academy or to investment firms. Like Mises, he believe it was the business of everyone. This book came out in 1978 and it's been thirty years out of print. It was supposed to be a redo of What You Should Know About Inflation, but as Hazlitt said, it turned into a completely new book. This is one that the Mises Institute wanted to have in print for many years, and it is an event to celebrate that it is finally here, in a beautiful edition at a rock-bottom price. 191 page, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-933550-56-5

The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve It

HENRY HAZLITT

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