Archive for Norman Barry
After That
“Somewhere in the world today walks the next Marx. But he is not a communist. . . . Nonetheless, he or she will attempt to seize upon the trends behind today’s headlines to shape a competitor to ‘American capitalism’ that the disenfranchised in nations around the world can embrace.” —DAVID ROTHKOPF1 David Rothkopf, chairman and [...]
1Jun2002 | Norman Barry | 2 comments | ContinuedA New Old American Concept of Political Liberty
It is odd that a libertarian should have a conception of political liberty at all. Isn’t it the case that there is a permanent war between freedom and politics? Surely any reduction in the political sphere produces a concomitant increase in individual liberty. Has not choice in the market, characterized by personal autonomy and spontaneity, [...]
1Mar2002 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedPhony Marketeers
Contributing editor Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). Which political movements benefited most from the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? Certainly not libertarianism or the free-market [...]
1Sep2001 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedHarmony from Liberty
Contributing editor Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Bastiat we are reminded once again of how much contemporary economic [...]
1Jun2001 | Norman Barry | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Never-Ending Welfare Debate
Norman Barry, a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty, is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). After a long struggle, a “revolutionary” welfare reform bill, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act [...]
1Mar2001 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedGreat Britain Finally Makes It to the Eighteenth Century
Norman Barry, a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty, is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). On October 2, 2000, the Human Rights Act came into force in Britain.1 Given that the United [...]
1Feb2001 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedConstitutional Protection of Economic Liberty
Norman Barry, a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty, is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). The Supreme Court has been deliberately neglectful of traditional American economic liberties. With the exception of some [...]
1Nov2000 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Logic and Morality of Takeovers
The late Norman Barry was a professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. Of all the features of the market, the takeover process is still the most reviled. Assailed by moralists for encouraging greed and antisocial individualism and for breaking up stable communities; by some economists for its alleged [...]
1Jul2000 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Stakeholder Fallacy
Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). As the saying goes: “There is more than one way to skin a cat.” And former collectivists, embarrassed by the dismal failure of economic planning to provide any kind [...]
1Mar2000 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedGermany and the Third Way
Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). At least two things exercise political and economic commentators on Europe: the meaning and policy significance of the “third way” and the current malaise in the German economy. [...]
1Nov1999 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Morality in the Plays of Tom Stoppard
Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). Most people who were dazzled by the verbal dexterity and comic genius revealed in Tom Stoppard’s Oscar-winning movie, Shakespeare in Love (his co-writer, Marc Norman, provided the idea but [...]
1Aug1999 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedThere’s No Philadelphia in Europe
The late Norman Barry was professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom and was the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). The member states of the European Union, in their struggles to find some form of international authority, are going through debates that have a strange resonance [...]
1Feb1999 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | Continued-
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