All Posts Tagged With: "commerce"
Commerce and Artistic Freedom
The dynamic merchant class gave birth to artistic freedom a thousand years ago, and today commerce continues to open new opportunities for creative expression to budding artists.
10Jan2012 | Sandy Ikeda | 3 comments | ContinuedTwo Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street
If you want a peaceful, prosperous, and pleasant world, work to encourage commerce and limit the State.
1Dec2011 | Steven Horwitz | 37 comments | ContinuedThe Roads to Modernity: the British, French, and American Enlightenments
In 1945, Austrian economist F. A. Hayek delivered a lecture on what he called “Individualism: True and False.” The gist of his argument was that there had been a great deal of confusion and misunderstanding concerning the relationship between the individual and society, both in terms of social theory and practical politics. He juxtaposed what [...]
7Jul2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 2 comments | ContinuedAre Profits Fit Only for Serfs and Slaves?
In their recent book, From Poverty to Prosperity, Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz relate that ancient Romans believed it honorable to gain wealth through battle and conquest, but dishonorable to profit by engaging in commerce. Such work was considered so demeaning that it was left to the children of freed slaves. Because of the associated [...]
29Jun2010 | Richard W. Fulmer | 6 comments | ContinuedLaw Did Not Predate Commerce
Best quote I’ve seen today: Law and commerce were indelibly linked in the thought of David Hume, who argued that it is commerce itself that gives rise to notions of justice between people and peoples. Although commerce is today typically seen as something which is proactively enabled by law, it is much more accurate historically [...]
7Aug2009 | Sheldon Richman | 6 comments | ContinuedCommerce, Markets, and Peace: Richard Cobden’s Enduring Lessons
Edward Stringham is a visiting associate professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. A longer version of this article won second prize (faculty division) in the 2003 Olive W. Garvey Fellowship Program for the Independent Institute and is reprinted in Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Interventionism, edited by Robert Higgs and [...]
1Oct2008 | Edward P. Stringham | 0 comments | ContinuedWarriors and Merchants
In 1915 the well-known German economic historian Werner Sombart published a book with the arresting title Merchants and Heroes. It argued that the war then underway between the Central Powers and the Entente was not just a traditional great-power conflict. It was rather a struggle between two different worldviews embodied by France and Britain on [...]
1Nov2005 | Stephen Davies | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – March 2004
Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics by Kenneth R. Hoover Rowman and Littlefield • 2003 • 328 pages • $75.00 hardcover; $27.95 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Why do people hold the views that they do, including and especially their political and ideological views? That question has generated [...]
1Mar2004 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCommerce Triumphs
The day after the Taliban abandoned Kabul in Afghanistan last November, the New York Times‘s David Rohde reported on the quick revival of commerce in the capital. “Food appeared plentiful. A central market that lines the road leading into the city had large amounts of fresh meat for sale, fruit juices from Iran and even [...]
1Mar2002 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Classical Liberals Should Love Harry Potter
As anyone with children can tell you, the Harry Potter books by British author J. K. Rowling have taken the world by storm. Now in its fourth installment, this series of stories about the education of a young British wizard at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is wildly popular with children and adults alike. [...]
1Dec2000 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | ContinuedRoads Without the State
Peter Samuel is editor and publisher of Toll Roads, a monthly newletter. Can there be roads if the government doesn’t build them? The first roads were probably not even made by humans but by animals. Herds of buffalo, deer, and other grass foragers pushed aside the shrubs and trampled down the grass to make tracks [...]
1Jan1998 | Peter Samuel | 1 comment | ContinuedProperty Rights and Law Among the Ancient Greeks
Mr. Rehmke is the director of educational programs at the Free Enterprise Institute in Houston. Greek art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and politics clearly mark the beginning of Western civilization. But the Greek contribution to the Western world runs far deeper than its intellectual and artistic accomplishments, its stunning architecture, and its masterful works of philosophy [...]
1Feb1997 | Gregory F. Rehmke | 3 comments | Continued-
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