All Posts Tagged With: "Hillsdale College"
Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect
Paul Rahe argues that American democracy is well down the road to the soft despotism that Tocqueville feared. But the outcome is not inevitable.
24Nov2010 | Ross B. Emmett | 0 comments | ContinuedWhere Are the Best Schools in Austrian Economics?
Here in the United States most colleges and universities have a goodly number of “neoclassical” economists with a free-market bent. (There are a number of “free market” colleges and universities in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, a topic I shall pursue in a future column.) The American schools include the University of Virginia; the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Florida State University; and the University of Chicago.
1Jul2001 | Mark Skousen | 35 comments | ContinuedIndependent Schools at Risk
Jacob Huebert is a student at Grove City College and an intern at FEE. As discontentment with government schools grows, tax-funded “school choice” has emerged as the leading reform proposal. School-choice programs typically include a voucher plan, although some would make direct payments from the government to private schools. Those proposals are intended to give [...]
1Sep1999 | Jacob H. Huebert | 2 comments | ContinuedBetween Power and Liberty: Economics and the Law edited by Richard M. Ebeling
Hillsdale College Press • 1998 • 169 pages • $9.95 paperback Philip Murray is an associate professor of economics at Webber College in Babson Park, Florida. Between Power and Liberty: Economics and the Law, is the publication of the 1997 Ludwig von Mises lectures at Hillsdale College. The book’s title comes from James Madison’s description [...]
1Feb1999 | Philip R. Murray | 0 comments | Continued-
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