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When Movements Become Rackets and Other Swindles: The PFS Trilogy

by Doug French

Houston, Texas: Papinian Press and the Property and Freedom Society, September 18, 2025. Edited by Stephan Kinsella; foreword by Jeffrey A. Tucker73 pages

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Author
Doug French
First published
2025
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
73
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Three talks Doug French gave at the Property and Freedom Society, collected as one short book. The first, "How Movements Turn Into Rackets," traces how a cause built on ideas becomes a fundraising business. The other two apply the same lens to the financial newsletter trade and to university programs that claim to teach entrepreneurship.

Jeffrey Tucker contributes the foreword, "The Nonprofit Racket." French is a former president of the Mises Institute; the book was edited by Stephan Kinsella.

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Douglas E. French is an American economist and President Emeritus of the Mises Institute. He is the author of Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases in the Money Supply and Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth. This archive holds 3 of French's works.

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9 chapters · 18,303 words · free to read here

  1. Front Matter
  2. Foreword: The Nonprofit Racket
  3. Preface
  4. How Movements Turn Into Rackets
  5. The Financial Newsletter Racket
  6. Teaching the Unteachable: The Teaching Entrepreneurship Racket
  7. Bibliography
  8. About the Author
  9. About the Property and Freedom Society
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Douglas E. French is an American economist and President Emeritus of the Mises Institute. He is the author of Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases in the Money Supply and Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth. Read more about Doug French.

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