All Posts Tagged With: "freedom"
Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How It Could Happen
“Federalism’s history has been the history of its demise.” So writes Michael S. Greve in a book designed nevertheless to prove that, like Mark Twain’s demise, the death of federalism has been greatly exaggerated. Federalism has been down for decades, floored by the pro-New Deal shift of the Supreme Court in 1937 and kicked repeatedly [...]
1Jul2000 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Economic Advantages of a Commitment to Liberty
In my last column I discussed the bias toward excessive government caused by the dead-weight costs of taxation. Because these costs go unseen, while the benefits from government spending are readily apparent, government expands beyond reasonable limits.
1Apr2000 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedTechnology, Progress, and Freedom
Edward Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia. Technology represents man’s attempt to make life easier. Technological advances improve people’s standard of living, increase leisure time, help eliminate poverty, and lead to a greater variety of products. Progress allows people more time to spend on higher [...]
1Jan2000 | Edward W. Younkins | 1 comment | ContinuedTwo Indispensable Lessons
The 1900s are now history. I say “1900s” rather than “twentieth century” to avoid irritating those sticklers for precision who note that the final day of the twentieth century is December 31, 2000, and not December 31, 1999. I agree, too, with sticklers of another sort who point out that, because time measurement is a [...]
1Jan2000 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate
Libertarians and conservatives seem to want to get along; how else explain this book’s existence? It was published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a now-conservative organization founded by libertarian journalist Frank Chodorov as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists. What happened when Chodorov passed control of his organization to more conservative characters is emblematic of the [...]
1Dec1999 | Brian Doherty | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Market and Political Freedom
John Marangos teaches in the department of economics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. This article is adapted from “Market and Political Freedom” in D. Kartarelis, ed., Business & Economics for the 21st Century, proceedings of the Business and Economics Society International Conference, Athens, Greece, July 18–22, 1997, volume I. The author wishes to thank [...]
1Jun1999 | John Marangos | 2 comments | ContinuedBogus Freedom
“Freedom from want” is one of the most frequently invoked notions of freedom in our time. However, it is a bogus freedom that politicians and socialists offer to lull people into accepting policies that destroy true freedom. Freedom from want has been most loudly advocated in this century by those who favored removing almost all [...]
1May1999 | James Bovard | 0 comments | 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 | ContinuedOn Behalf of the Ideal
Leonard E. Read established FEE in 1946 and served as its president until his death in 1983. This article, one of Mr. Read’s Notes from FEE messages, is excerpted from Essays on Liberty, Vol. VII (1960), pp. 332–436. It is the tenth in a monthly series commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mr. Read’s birth. There [...]
1Oct1998 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedMarkets and Freedom
The social cooperation that emerges in free markets permits the specialization on which prosperity depends. We would be much poorer without the specialization that is possible only when large numbers of people can coordinate production and consumption through market exchange. But even more important than the material wealth we realize from the marketplace is the [...]
1Sep1998 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedA Letter from Russia
Dear Readers of The Freeman, Hello, I am Grigory (Greg), whom you might remember from a previous issue of The Freeman (“Letters From Russia,” October 1997). First, I should say I have read several issues of The Freeman, which I received from my friend Dennis Peterson, and it has been a real eye-opener to me [...]
1Aug1998 | Grigory Shishatsky | 3 comments | ContinuedProperty and the Moral Life
Hayek’s bold statement that “Private property is the most important guaranty of freedom” holds true at many levels. Certainly it is private property that allows the individual to be independent from the whims of his government and his fellows. And, as Robert Nozick has elegantly argued, any ahistorical scheme to redistribute property is incompatible with [...]
1Feb1998 | Jason Baldwin | 0 comments | ContinuedWhite Magic
Editor’s Note: To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of FEE founding president Leonard E. Read (1898–1983), The Freeman will publish a classic Read essay each month under the series heading “Anything That’s Peaceful.” Leonard Read was born on a farm in Michigan. At 19, his formal education was interrupted by his entry into [...]
1Jan1998 | Leonard E. Read | 2 comments | ContinuedOne Freedom
Russell Madden is a communications instructor at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “A man was either free or not free. . . . Freedom was indivisible. . . . To talk of ‘several freedoms’ is to use the language of Europe, not of America; it is an abandonment of the basic principle on [...]
1Jan1998 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | ContinuedIndividualism and Freedom: Vital Pillars of True Communities
Edward Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. Individualism is the view that each person has moral significance and certain rights that are either of divine origin or inherent in human nature. Each individual exists, perceives, experiences, thinks, and acts in and through his own body and [...]
1Jan1998 | Edward W. Younkins | 0 comments | ContinuedEducation and the Free Society
Linda C. Raeder is a doctoral candidate in political theory at the Catholic University of America and associate editor of Humanitas. The classical-liberal philosophy of limited government and the rule of law is in danger of being consigned to oblivion. Enemies of the free society have successfully appropriated the time-honored “liberal” name and transformed it [...]
1Oct1997 | Linda C. Raeder | 1 comment | ContinuedDiscovery and Economic Freedom
Dr. Klein is associate professor of economics at Santa Clara University. This essay is a condensation of his article, “Discovery Factors of Economic Freedom: Respondence, Epiphany, and Serendipity,” in Uncertainty and Economic Evolution: Essays in Honour of Armen A. Alchian, ed. John R. Lott, Jr. (London: Routledge, 1997). Reprinted by permission of Routledge. When an [...]
1Sep1997 | Daniel B. Klein | 1 comment | Continued-
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