William H. Peterson

William Herbert Peterson (February 26, 1921 – June 2012) was an American economist who wrote on the insights of Ludwig von Mises through teaching, writing, and speaking on the relationship between free enterprise and human liberty.

Education Peterson earned a B.S. (1943) and Ph.D. (1952) degrees in economics from New York University Peterson also voiced his concern for present-day education standards in writings such as his article in The Free Market titled "School Values, Public and Private", where he states that "America's worry over a general moral erosion in politics and society has coincided with ever-more draconian federal control over education." Many of his writings overlapped in his topics of interest, mixing education with government and relating government to economics and capitalism.

Peterson lectured at the University of the Americas (Mexico City), Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Arizona, University of Connecticut, University of Virginia, Florida State University, Chattanooga State, Northwood Institute, Emory and Henry College, Peace College, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Wellesley College, University of New Hampshire, and others, including various professional and trade associations. Many of his speeches discussed topics regarding the Austrian school of economics, following the ideas of Mises.

List of works

Business Is Business "Administration?," 1981 Getting Results with Information, May 28, 1992: THe Washington Times

Economics Who Also Pays Business Taxes?, Heritage Foundation and the Mises Institute The Bookshelf: How to Curb Competition WHile Trying to Spur It, March 1, 1936: The Wall Street Journal The Legacy of Lord Keynes, September 14, 1959: British Society for Individual Freedom: Freedom First Peterson's 'Law': An economist's foray into the nature of money and the declining value thereof, November 1959: Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, vol. 8, no. 2 Automation and Unemployment – An Oft-Exploded Myth Revives, March 5, 1962: Barron's The Other Revolution of '76, Fall 1973: Modern Age Who is the Real Employer? – The True Source of Jobs, 1976: Chamber of Commerce of the United States In Defense of Millionaires, February 1981: The Freeman Defending the Rich, October 16, 1986: The Chattanooga Times The Free Market Reader, 1988: Mises Institute Take a Hard Look At Transfers, Spring 1990: The Campbell Entrepreneur, vol. 13, no. 1 The Business Outlook: Short War – Short Recession, February 13, 1991: Anchor Financial Group Meeting – Raleigh, NC America's Second Democracy, April 4, 1991: Campbell University Honors Banquet Bulging Budget Transfers, June 29, 1992: The Washington Times Capital Day, 1998, May 1998: The Free Market, vol. 16, no. 5 Free Markets: The Status Quo vs. America's Other Democracy, January 23, 1999: CaptiveAire meeting – Tulsa, OK Free Trade and Capitalism: America's Other Democracy, April 1, 1999: Vital Speeches of the Day, vol. 65, no. 12 Drumbeat Against Capitalism, August 2, 1999: Investor's Business Daily The Golden Rule and the Free Market, c. 2000 Economic Freedom Spreads Globally As Adam Smith's lessons Take Hold, April 10, 2000: Investor's Business Daily Capitalism Appraised: A new look at mankind's greatest achievement, July 3, 2001: The Washington Times WHP Remarks, Capital Research Center, April 9, 2002: The Free Market, vol. 20, no. 9 Capitalism: The Greatest Charity, September 2002: The Free Market, vol. 20, no. 9 When Government Is the Problem, January 26, 2003: The Washington Times America's Greatest Democracy, July 29, 2003 The Meaning of Market Democracy, December 2003: The Free Market, vol. 21, no. 12 A Self-Defeating System: The problem with welfare, December 9, 2003: The Washington Times Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy, March 2004: Economic Club of Detroit The Power to Destroy, April 1, 2004 Free to Prosper: Ranking countries' liberty and growth, August 31, 2004: The Washington Times The Democracy of the Market, November 2005: The Free Market, vol. 26, no. 11 Economics in One Lesson: With Apologies to Henry Hazlitt, August 28, 2006: Shaftesbury Conference (John Locke Foundation) World Peace Through World Trade, November 20, 2006 Disenfranchising America's Great Democracy, March 29, 2007 Peterson's Law of Inflation, August 28, 2007 America's Other Democracy: Politics and Economics at Work, April 3, 2008 Two Manifestos, Two Revolutions, August 5, 2008 Anti-State, Anti-War, Pro-Market, June 24, 2009: The Washington Times The Accelerator and Say's Law, December 8, 2011: On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises (1956) Capitalism: Our Greatest Charity and Democracy Forward with Uneconomics? Peterson's Law: Featuring America's Other Democracy and the Forgotten Man Peterson's Law: Or Why Things Go Wrong Postal Status Quo or Ayn Rand Millenium? Who Really Pays Business Taxes?

Education School Values, Public and Private, April 1997: The Free Market, vol. 15, no. 4 Public Education's Cardinal Sin, April 22, 2003: Campbell University Leave No Child Behind: Capitalism reform in education, January 27, 2004: The Washington Times

Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship, the Possible Dream, November 1985: The Freeman

Morals Natural Law and Its Law-Breaker Extraordinary, February 26, 2004 Mencken vs. Lincoln, April 14, 2009

Politics The Greatest Show on Earth, August 11, 1956: Time & Tide Should We Trade With the Communists?, April 1956: Harvard Business Review, vol. 37, no. 2 The Taproots of Political Corruption, December 1990: The Freeman A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Reviewed by Peterson), May 1992: The Freeman Imperial Rights Regimen, July 16, 1992: The Washington Times Stoning Nixon, May 1996 Rational Ignorance or Citizenship Education, November 6, 1997: Dallas Fed Lunch Remarks to Marriott Ballston (VA) Residents, June 14, 2001 The Forgotten Man: How Americans Fare in Their Two Democracies, June 22, 2002: A Strategy for High Schoolers—Young America's Foundation, Arlington, VA Freedom and Prosperity: Together, they are the coming thing, December 17, 2002: The Washington Times Huffington turned by the tide: Author takes selective swipes at America's greedy, February 26, 2003: The Washington Times Strange bedfellows: The liaison between politics and science, November 4, 2003: The Washington Times Constitutional Rights?: Preserving the Founders' Intent, April 20, 2004: The Washington Times America's Other Democracy, November 5, 2004 The Muddle of the Road, November 10, 2004 Back to basics: America's democratic origins, December 27, 2004: The Washington Times The Endless Muddle East Imbroglio: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace?, August 24, 2006 Legacy Lost: GOP's big government, February 27, 2007: The Washington Times More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (reviewed by Peterson)

On Mises Ludwig von Mises: Thoughts and Memories, 1971: Toward Liberty (Institute of Humane Studies) Memories of Ludwig von Mises, May 1987: The Free Market (Mises Institute) Discovering Mises: A Turning Point, November 13, 2003 Mises in New York , October 8, 2005: The Economics of Fascism Mises in America, 2009

Miscellaneous One Harlem, Then the Other, August 11, 1984: The New York Times The Pilgrims' Turkey of an Idea, November 21, 1990 For Dancers Only: Remembering Swing, April 1994: Chronicles