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First published 1937

Romance of Reality

by Leonard E. Read

The Foundation for Economic Education, 1937ISBN 978-1-63069-661-0

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Author
Leonard E. Read
First published
1937
Format
EPUB
ISBN
978-1-63069-661-0
Publisher
The Foundation for Economic Education
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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Leonard Read's first book, published in 1937. Read gives the name X factor to the individual initiative and voluntary exchange he sees behind American prosperity, then works through the ways government expansion, inflation, the NRA, consumer cooperatives and share the wealth schemes subvert it.

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Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) was an American founder and president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), and had a lifelong devotion to educating people about freedom in down-to-earth ways that would stick with them. This archive holds 39 of Read's works.

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16 chapters · 37,525 words · free to read here

  1. Front Matter
  2. Preface
  3. CHAPTER I DEBUNKING THE LABELS
  4. CHAPTER II THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
  5. CHAPTER III THE “X” FACTOR
  6. CHAPTER IV DOES OVER-EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT SUBVERT THE “X” FACTOR?[*]
  7. CHAPTER V GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION SUBVERTS THE “X” FACTOR
  8. CHAPTER VI THE SUBVERSION OF THE “X” FACTOR BY GOVERNMENT MIS-DIRECTION
  9. CHAPTER VII DOES INFLATION SUBVERT THE “X” FACTOR?
  10. CHAPTER VIII THE SUBVERSIVE ASPECTS OF THE “NRA” IDEA
  11. CHAPTER IX WHAT ABOUT CONSUMER JUDGMENT?
  12. CHAPTER X MISCELLANEOUS SUBVERSIONS
  13. CHAPTER XI THE PROMOTIVE EFFECTS OF A GOOD GOVERNMENT
  14. CHAPTER XII THE PROMOTIVE EFFECTS OF MACHINERY
  15. CHAPTER XIII THE PROMOTIVE POSSIBILITIES OF GROUP ACTIVITY
  16. CHAPTER XIV ADDENDUM
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Leonard E. Read 1898–1983

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