All Posts Tagged With: "economic liberty"
The New Financial Imperialism
The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia defines imperialism as “the policy of extending a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations. Because imperialism always involves the use of power, often in the form of military force, it is widely considered morally objectionable, and the term accordingly has [...]
20May2010 | Robert Stewart | 3 comments | ContinuedAaron Director on the Market for Goods and Ideas
Aaron Director, one of the outstanding American economists of the twentieth century, died September 11, 2004, at the age of 102. Few people outside the circle of professional economists have heard of him. This is partly because he published very little, either of a scholarly or popular nature. His greatest influence was through his teaching [...]
1Nov2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | 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 | Continued-
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