All Posts Tagged With: "aggression"
A Property-Rights Theory of Mass Murder
Stephen Carson, a software engineer, writes independently from St. Louis. This article is condensed from “Killing and Stealing: A Property-Rights Theory of Mass Murder,” which first appeared in The Independent Review, Winter 2007, and was reprinted in Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Interventionism, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close (The Independent [...]
1Sep2008 | Stephen W. Carson | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Road to Liberty: Persuasion and Aggression
The author would like to thank Jan Lester and Paul Birch for helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. This is drawn from a lecture given at FEE in February. I would like to highlight two diametrically opposed ideas that I believe can help clarify our notion of liberty. Any specific human action can [...]
1Jun2003 | Gene Callahan | 1 comment | ContinuedWar
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, free-trade activist, and member of the French legislature after the Revolution of 1848. This is a chapter from his treatise, Economic Harmonies, translated by W. Hayden Boyers, which along with his other works is available from FEE. Among all the circumstances that have some part in giving to [...]
1Jun2000 | Frederic Bastiat | 2 comments | ContinuedWhat’s So Bad about Big Government Anyway?
In a recent conversation I used the term “big government,” clearly in a pejorative way. Another person spoke up to challenge me, asking, “What’s so bad about big government?” He went on to name some benefits that he supposed were possible only with a powerful state. We debated whether it was true, for example, that [...]
1Dec1997 | George C. Leef | 17 comments | ContinuedThe Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
Viking • 1997 • 295 pages • $24.95 It is not uncommon for those who have been trained in economics or philosophy to arrive at the conclusion that big government is a dangerous menace, but it is an event worth noting when a scientist comes to that conclusion. The event becomes even more noteworthy if [...]
1Dec1997 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued-
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