All Posts Tagged With: "civilization"
Rule of Law versus Legislative Orders
Webster’s dictionary defines law as all the rules of conduct established and enforced by the authority, legislation, or custom of a given community or group. Why are there laws in the first place? The most apparent answer is, were there not a particular law, some people would not conduct themselves according to the law in [...]
23Oct2009 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedEscaping Modernity
Many writers have described the mishmash of emotions and ideas that motivate the “antiglobalization” protesters who have been so much in the news since the 1999 Seattle riots. To point out that many of these ideas are irreconcilably at odds with each other is now old hat. (What, for example, does it mean to be [...]
1Aug2002 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 2 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Two Libertarianisms To the Editor: Jim Peron, in “Are There Two Libertarianisms?” (June 2001), sees moralism and consequentialism as two sides of a coin. He writes, “A free society is not only right but it works.” Surely there is mutual support between them. Nonetheless, there is a fundamental divide as to primacy. Moralism aims at [...]
1Oct2001 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedOn Reading History
Economics is the discipline that I loved first and that I continue to love above all. The economic way of thinking—as the late Paul Heyne called it—is a potent solvent for cutting through the nonsense and irrelevancies that typically loom large in policy discussions. No one lacking a solid grasp of economic principles can understand [...]
1Aug2001 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedRussell Kirk’s Conception of Decadence
Mr. Whitney is senior speech writer for Michigan Governor John Engler and the senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal. When the late Dr. Russell Kirk sought a publisher for The Conservative Mind, he approached a young Chicago firm run by Henry Regnery. Regnery seized on the significance of the manuscript and [...]
1Jun1997 | Gleaves Whitney | 0 comments | ContinuedSimEconomics
My daughter, at 13, has built a railroad across Europe. She has planned and governed a large metropolitan area. Recently she began a successful farm. Oh, and she’s conquered the world. She has done it all at our home computer—sometimes while I was waiting for my turn to play. Welcome to the world of personal [...]
1Nov1996 | Lawrence H. White | 2 comments | ContinuedProsperity Without Pollution
Mr. Semmens is an economist with Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. I recently had the opportunity to participate in a World Future Society “debate” on whether we could reduce pollution without also reducing our economic well-being. Mainstream thinking asserts that we must sacrifice at least some of our prosperity in order to protect the environment. [...]
1Mar1996 | John Semmens | 2 comments | Continued-
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