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[1] Middleville, Michigan | 7, 1905
Died | 21, 1973[2] |
Nationality | United States |
Influences | Herbert J. Davenport[3] |
Influenced | Murray Rothbard[2], Antony Fisher[4], Charles Koch [5], Walter Block[5], W.M. Curtiss[2], Paul Poirot[2], Ivan Bierly[5], Ellis Lamborn[5], Ronald Hamowy[1], Neil McLeod[4], Christopher Coyne[6], N. A. Snow[6] |
Floyd Arthur "Baldy" Harper (February 7, 1905 – April 1973) was an American academic, economist and writer who was best known for founding the Institute for Humane Studies in 1961.[7][8][9][10][1][11]
Life[]
Youth[]
Baldy Harper was born and raised in Middleville, Michigan and graduated from Michigan State University. [7][8][9][10][1] He went on to obtain a doctorate in agricultural economics from Cornell University.[3] Economist Herbert J. Davenport was influential to Harper during his time at Cornell.[3]
In 1930, Harper married Marguerite Kaechele. The couple had four children: Barbara, Harriet, Helen, and Larry. [3]
Career[]
The Federal Farm Board employed Harper as a research field agent in 1930 and 1931.[12] He worked as a business analyst for the Farm Credit Association in 1934.[12] In acedemia Harper spent 19 years as a professor of marketing at Cornell University and in 1937 was appointed acting head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Puerto Rico.[12][13][14][15][16][3][1] He left Cornell in 1946 after university officials decided that he should not be assigning readings of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek's work.[13][14][15][16][3][1] In 1946, Harper helped Leonard Read start the Foundation for Economic Education.[9][17][10][18][1][2] A member of the Mont Pelerin Society, Harper was present at the group's first meeting in 1947 along with Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig Von Mises, Milton Friedman, and Karl Popper. [9][10][1][19] Harper served on the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education until 1958, when he became a co-director of the William Volker Fund, a position he held until 1961.[19][20][21][10][2] In the early 1960s, Harper served as a visiting professor of moral philosophy at Wabash College. [3][1]
Institute for Humane Studies[]
Harper is best known for founding the Institute for Humane Studies.[7][8][2][22] He initially served as the Institute's secretary and treasurer.[3][11] He became the Institute's president in 1965, a position he held until his death in 1973.[3][23][11]
Harper founded the Institute in 1961 in Menlo Park, California.[7][8][2] The Institute, which began in Harper's garage, is a non-profit organization that offers educational and career programs.[7][24][25][5][26][27] The educational programs include seminars, scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students, an archive of recorded lectures, and an interactive website based on a multi-axis model of political thought.[28][29][30][31][32][33][5] The career assistance programs include paid internships for students and recent graduates, a networking website for classical liberal academics, and recognition of alumni accomplishments.[5][34][35][36][37] Initially serving as the secretary and treasurer, Harper became the Institute's president in 1966, a position he held until his death in 1973.[3][38][39] After beginning an association with George Mason University, Leonard Liggio, Walter Grinder, and John Blundell moved the institute to Fairfax, Virginia in 1985.[14][8] The organization is currently located in Hazel Hall on the George Mason University Arlington campus along with sister organization the Mercatus Center.[8][40][41]
Recognition[]
Mentoring a network of classical liberal scholars, building institutions, encouraging scholarship, and laying out strategy and practice for the libertarian movement is where Harper's influence is visible today.[1][2][7][8][9][10][11]
Current Institute for Humane Studies chairman of the board Charles Koch said that Harper's book, Why Wages Rise, influenced his philosophical framework.[42]
In 1978 and 1979 the Institute for Humane Studies published The Writings of F. A. Harper.[43] Koch wrote the tribute section, saying, "Of all the teachers of liberty, none was as well-beloved as Baldy, for it was he who taught the teachers and, in teaching, taught them humility and gentleness."[43]
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University established the F.A. Harper Professorship in Economics, a position currently held by Christopher Coyne.[44] In October 2011, Coyne co-authored an article entitled War and Liberty: Wisdom From Leonard E. Read and F. A. 'Baldy' Harper. The article reviews the main themes of Harper's anti-war pamphlet In Search of Peace and argues that Harper's ideas are as important and relevant today as they were in 1950.[6]
Publications[]
- Harper, F A; C W Vaughn (1927-11). "Machines for Handling Statistics". American Mathematical Monthly 34 (9): 446–453.
- Harper, F A (1939). Reasons for Differences in the Price of Apples Received by Ulster County Growers, 1937 Crop .... Ithaca, New York: Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management Cornell University.
- Harper, F A (1937-05-01). "Using Economic Information in Building an Annual Farm Program: Discussion". Journal of Farm Economics 19 (2): 422–424. Template:Citation error. ISSN 1071-1031. JSTOR 1230944.
- Harper, F A; F F Hill (1944-05). "Have We Food Enough for All?". American Journal of Nursing 44 (5): 523. http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Citation/1944/05000/Have_We_Food_Enough_for_All_.60.aspx. Retrieved 2012-01-14.
- Harper, F A (1944-11-01). "The Importance of Storage Costs in Accumulating Food Stocks". Journal of Farm Economics 26 (4): 794–800. Template:Citation error. ISSN 1071-1031. JSTOR 1232125.
- Harper, F A; Pearson, Frank (1945). The World's Hunger. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. pp. 90. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_world_s_hunger.html?id=OO1IAAAAMAAJ.
- Harper, F A (1948-05-01). "The Government's Agricultural Policy and Inflation". Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science 23 (1): 30–36. Template:Citation error. ISSN 0065-0684. JSTOR 1172885.
- Harper, F A (1948). High Prices. Irvington, New York: Foundation for Economic Education. pp. 71. http://books.google.com/?id=b7kvAAAAYAAJ&q=High+Prices+harper&dq=High+Prices+harper.
- Harper, F A (1949). Liberty, A Path to Its Recovery. Foundation for Economic Education. ISBN 978-0-910614-95-5. http://www.fee.org/doc/liberty_a_path_to_its_recovery/.
- Harper, F A (1957). Why Wages Rise. Foundation for Economic Education. ISBN 978-0-910614-05-4. http://mises.org/resources/3064/Why-Wages-Rise.
- Harper, F A (1968-07-19). "Federal Funds Mean Federal Control". Science 161 (3838): 220. Template:Citation error. PMID 5657323. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/161/3838/220.2.short. Retrieved 2012-01-14.
- Harper, F A (1969). The Crisis of the Free Market. Chicago: Johnson. pp. 83. http://books.google.com/?id=Ix5LtwAACAAJ&dq=The+Crisis+of+the+Free+Market.
- Harper, F A (1979). The Writings of F A Harper. Arlington, Virginia: Institute for Humane Studies. ISBN 978-0-89617-000-1. v1 v2
- Harper, F A (1931). F. A. Harper Papers. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Archives. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5j49r97h/.
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See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Hamowy, Ronald (Aug 15, 2008). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE. p. 623. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. http://books.google.com/?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC&dq=libertarian+encyclopedia.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Rothbard, Murray N (2007-08-17). "Floyd Arthur 'Baldy' Harper, RIP". Mises Daily.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Poirot, Paul L (1979-08). "The Writings of F. A. Harper". The Freeman 29 (8). http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-writings-of-f-a-harper/. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Blundell, John (1998-09). "No Antony Fisher, No IEA: 'The Case for Freedom' After 50 Years". Economic Affairs 18 (3): 42. ISSN 02650665.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Walter, Block,. I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians. Ludwig von Mises Institute. ISBN 978-1-61016-002-5. Cite error: Invalid
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tag; name "I Chose Liberty by Block" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Coyne, Christopher J; Nicholas A Snow (2011-10-01). "War and Liberty: Wisdom from Leonard E. Read and F. A. 'Baldy' Harper". Economic Affairs 31 (3): 51–53. Template:Citation error. ISSN 1468-0270. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0270.2011.02100.x/abstract. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Wilcox, Derk Arend (2000). The Right Guide: A Guide to Conservative, Free-Market, and Right-of-Center Organizations. Ann Arbor, MI: Economics America, Inc.. pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-914169-06-2.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Huebert, Jacob H (2010). Libertarianism Today. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 254. ISBN 978-0-313-37754-9.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Hülsmann, Jörg Guido. "Birth of a Movement". Mises Daily. Ludwig von Mises Institute. http://mises.org/daily/2732. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Mirowski, Philip; Plehwe, Dieter (2009). The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 469. ISBN 978-0-674-03318-4.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Rothbard, Murray Newton (1977). Power and Market: Government and the Economy. Sheed Andrews and McMeel. ISBN 9780836207507.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Sennholz, Mary (1956). On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises. Ludwig von Mises Institute. ISBN 978-1-61016-119-0.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Peck, Jamie. Constructions of Neoliberal Reason. Oxford University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-19-162501-5.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Blundell, John (2003). Waging the War of Ideas. Institute of Economic Affairs. ISBN 978-0-255-36547-5.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Gottfried, Paul (1993). The Conservative Movement. Twayne Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8057-9749-7.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Gladstein, Mimi Reisel; John Meadowcroft (2009-11-19). Ayn Rand. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-4513-1.
- ↑ Plehwe, Dieter (2006). Neoliberal Hegemony: A Global Critique. London: Taylor & Francis. p. 294. ISBN 0-415-37327-1. http://books.google.com/?id=QTtE1VpEF40C&lpg=PA27&dq=%22%2BFoundation%20for%20Economic%20Education%22&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q=%22+Foundation%20for%20Economic%20Education%22&f=false.
- ↑ Phillips-Fein, Kim (2009). Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 356. ISBN 978-0-393-05930-4.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Hoplin, Nicole; Ron Robinson (2008-09-09). Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59698-562-9.
- ↑ George, Susan (1997). "How to Win the War of Ideas". Dissent 44 (Summer 1997): 47–53. http://www.denknetz-online.ch/IMG/pdf/War_of_Ideas.pdf. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- ↑ Lichtman, Allan J (2008). White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement. New York: Grove Press. pp. 598. ISBN 978-0-8021-4420-1.
- ↑ Frohnen, Bruce; Jeremy Beer, Jeffrey O. Nelson (2006). American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia. ISI Books. ISBN 978-1-932236-43-9.
- ↑ Harper, F A (1931). F. A. Harper Papers. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Archives. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5j49r97h/.
- ↑ Hamowy, Ronald (Aug 15, 2008). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE. pp. 217-218. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. http://books.google.com/?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC&dq=libertarian+encyclopedia.
- ↑ Convissor, Kate (August 1999). "The Acton Institute: Of Morality & the Marketplace". Grand Rapids Magazine (Grand Rapids, Michigan): pp. 36–37.
- ↑ Kaplan, Benjamin R (2003). The Scholarship Scouting Report: An Insider's Guide to America's Best Scholarships. New York: HarperResource. p. 357. ISBN 978-0-06-093654-9.
- ↑ "2012 IHS Graduate Summer Seminars". Ohio University. E. W. Scripps School of Journalism. http://scrippsjschool.org/news/scrippsNotes.php?id=2878. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ "Student Opportunities". eResources. State Policy Network. http://web.archive.org/web/20100728073729/http://www.spn.org/about/student-opportunities. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ "Institute for Humane Studies". Brigham Young University. Office of Prestigious Scholarships & Fellowships. http://web.archive.org/web/20080618025444/http://opsf.byu.edu/Scholarships/InstituteHumane.aspx. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ "Institute for Humane Studies". Syracuse University. Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs. http://web.archive.org/web/20101130035448/http://syr.edu/financialaid/scholarships/external_scholarships/general/humane_studies.html. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ "Institute for Humane Studies". Lehigh University. Office of Financial Aid. http://web.archive.org/web/20100422231914/http://www.lehigh.edu/~infao/current/types/scholarships.html. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ "Institute for Humane Studies". Duke University. Office of Funding Opportunities. https://researchfunding.duke.edu/detail.asp?OppID=4010. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ Zywicki, Todd (November 8, 2010). "Podcast at Kosmos Online". Volokh Conspiracy (Los Angeles). http://web.archive.org/web/20110120195828/http://volokh.com/2010/11/08/podcast-at-kosmos-online/. Retrieved January 05, 2012.
- ↑ Martens, Pam (SEPTEMBER 12, 2011). "The Koch Whisperers". CounterPunch (Petrolia, California). http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/12/the-koch-whisperers/. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
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- ↑ "IJ Attorney Scott Bullock Wins Koch Award". Liberty & Law 15 (4). August 2006. http://www.ij.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1976&Itemid=245.
- ↑ The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 1: The Major Works The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 1: The Major Works, 1978
- ↑ The Writings of F. A. Harper The Freeman, August 1979
- ↑ Bogardus, Kevin (July 15, 2004). "Koch's low profile belies political power". Center for Public Integrity's iwatch news (Washington, DC).
- ↑ "Jobs". Philanthropy News Digest (New York). June 7, 2011. http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/jobs/job_item.jhtml?id=341100054. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ Glassman, James K (2011). "Market-Based Man: Meet Charles G. Koch, winner of the 2011 William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership". Philanthropy Magazine 2011 (Fall). http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic/excellence_in_philanthropy/market_based_man. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 Harper, F. A. (1979). The Writings of F. A. Harper. Arlington, Virginia: Institute for Humane Studies. ISBN 978-0-89617-000-1.
- ↑ Coyne, Christopher J.; Rachel L. Mathers (2011-04-11). The Handbook on the Political Economy of War. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84844-248-1.
- ↑ LeFevre, Robert (1966). The Philosophy of Ownership. Ludwig von Mises Institute. ISBN 978-1-61016-073-5.
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