Free to Try (Freeman Classics)

by Hans F. Sennholz

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572460148
• ISBN13: 9781572460140
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Foundation for Economic Education
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It's spirit is willing, but it's flesh is weak.

This thin volume (137 pages) celebrating the entrepeneur and his vital role in the economy draws its material from articles and essays first appearing in "The Freeman". The early material is very light-weight and largely insubstantial--mostly just a collection of extremely short essays (usually 2-3 pages in length) that do little more than preach to the choir. The selected pieces DO increase in length and caliber as one moves through the collection, reaching a peak toward the end in the section entitled "The Politics of Envy", with a few pieces that will pique one's interest, venturing beyond the realm of merely affirming that the free market and the entrepeneur are, essentially, good things, into more controversial areas. All of the articles are non-technical and make for light reading. The spiritedness of the later bits pushes the book beyond "average", but the overall lack of meatiness leaves one just about as economically uneducated as when one begins the book (ironic for a book published by The Foundation for Economic Education). Still, I would recommend it on the strength of Gary North's article "Scalping and Envy"--about the only thing I've ever read with something good to say about scalpers and certainly the only thing that made me feel almost blessed by having been personally scalped on more than one occasion!