What is Foundation for Economic Education?
The '''Foundation for Economic Education''' is the oldest [[libertarian]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rothbard |first1=Murray |author-link1=Murray Rothbard |last2=Doherty |first2=Brian |author-link2=:es:Brian Doherty |editor-last=Gordon |editor-first=David |editor-link=:en:David Gordon (philosopher) |year=2010 |chapter=I. Setting the Stage; Rothbard’s Confidential Memorandum to the Volker Fund, “What Is to Be Done?”; Phase II: The Founding of FEE |title=Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard |url=https://cdn.mises.org/Strictly%20Confidential%20The%20Private%20Volker%20Fund%20Memos%20of%20Murray%20N%20Rothbard_2.pdf#page=27 |language=en |publisher={{ill|Ludwig von Mises Institute|en}} |page=14 |isbn=9781933550800 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318182126/https://cdn.mises.org/Strictly%20Confidential%20The%20Private%20Volker%20Fund%20Memos%20of%20Murray%20N%20Rothbard_2.pdf#page=27 |archive-date=2024-03-18 |access-date=2024-11-05 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[think tank]] in the [[United States of America]]. It was created by [[Leonard Read]] in 1946. It opposed the [[New Deal]], the [[Marshall Plan]], [[social security]] and [[minimum wage]]. ==Creation== In 1945, Jasper Crane and {{ill|Alfred Kohlberg|en}} complained about the [[New Deal]] and said that they wanted [[laissez-faire]] [[capitalism]]. So [[Leonard Read]], {{ill|Henry Hazlitt|en}}, David Goodrich, {{ill|Donaldson Brown|en}}, {{ill|Leo Wolman|en}}, {{ill|Fred Rogers Fairchild|en}} and Crane decided to create a [[think tank]] to teach people about how important [[economic]] [[liberty]] was. ==History== [[Leonard Read]] became the first [[president]] of the Foundation for Economic Education in 1946 but in 1983, he [[die]]d. Someone named Perry E. Gresham took over until FEE (the [[acronym]] for Foundation for Economic Education) found a [[man]] named John Sparks Senior to replace him. One [[year]] later Sparks was replaced by Bob Love. Love left in 1988 and was replaced by Bruce Evans. In 1992, {{ill|Hans Sen