The Free Market and Its Enemy [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] [VINTAGE1965]

Read, Leonard E.

Verlag: Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1965

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition textured yellow softcover paper wraps with red front cover and spine lettering. Includes About the Author and Publisher; Author Dedication; and Preliminary Page Quote by Joyce Kilmer. The upper right corner of the blank first free front endpaper contains a vintage neatly scripted former owner name and address. "My premise is that the destiny of man is to emerge or evolve toward an advancing potential and that individual liberty is essential to such progress. Unless a reeader shares my premise, he will not respond to my reasoning; nor will it be possible for him to arrive at my conclusions. He may have his eye set on a star I do not see or, if seeing, care nothing whatsoever about. I side with Thoreau on this, ". perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." If the music another hears be fame, or fortune, or power, or ease and retirement, or longevity, or anything less than individual emergence, I leave the reconcilliation to those with an itch for reform; it isn't as they say, my cup of tea. The reflections which follow are not aimed at swerving anyone from whatever life purpose he may have set for himself. That's his affair, not mine. Instead, these brevities are offered to those whose ideological and spiritual premise approximates my own: that man's earthly purpose is to expand one's own consciousness, as nearly as humanly possible, into a harmony with Infinite Consciousness or, in lay terms, to realize, as best one can, those creative potentialities uniquely his own. The lyrics to the music I hear have a clear refrain: the supreme purpose of life is "to hatch," to emerge, to evolve. It seems hardly necessary to labor the point that liberty is an essential prerequisite to individual emergence. That ground is already well covered. Nor is it necessary, among serious students of liberty, to explain why economic freedom is a basic requirement. We are acutely aware that freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of religion - all of these - rise or fall as the market is freed or restricted. Our wishes cannot affect this truth; it has to be this way. For anyone who accepts the above assumptions - all categorically expressed but easily demonstrable - it follows that his own evolving life depends on the fate of the free market. The market is not just a materialistic device, as many seem to believe. Spiritual expression is implicit in the free market, and the spiritual development of man is contorted by an interference with the market. In view of its importance in man's evolution, the fact that freedom is declining in the market warrants our concern. Market freedom is declining partly because of our own meager understanding and poor explanation of it and, partly, because we incorrectly identify the free market's enemy." - excerpt from Chapter 1 entitled The Drummer I Hear. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008005

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Free Market and Its Enemy [FIRST EDITION...

Verlag: Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1965

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition