All Posts Tagged With: "independence"
Economic Independence: Bedrock of Freedom
Economic independence is the bedrock of all other freedoms.
20Dec2011 | Wendy McElroy | 16 comments | ContinuedDusting Off a Man and His Classic
In 1870 the sultan of Turkey gave a book by a Scotsman to his entire entourage of top-ranking officials. The Khedive of Egypt had the same work inscribed and painted on the wall of the Royal harem. Two years later the Meiji dynasty ordered the book to be issued throughout Tokyo’s school system. Eventually every prefecture [...]
21Sep2011 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedWho Owns the Fed?
Have you heard? The Federal Reserve System raked in profits of $79.3 billion last year, almost triple what runner-up ExxonMobil made. The Fed’s business model is a snap—just print money—and unlike poor beleaguered Exxon, the Fed has no competition to worry about. This means a gigantic windfall for the big banks because, although they don’t [...]
21Apr2011 | Warren C. Gibson | 18 comments | ContinuedThe American Land Question
Widespread landownership long supported a kind of liberal-republican independence. Perhaps we should reexamine the nexus and ask ourselves how, in Donald Davidson’s words, we “let the freehold pass,” and whether that was really for the best.
10Jun2009 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 6 comments | ContinuedMoral Alchemy
The welfare state is a political-legal environment in which the government goes beyond protecting life, liberty, and property against physical aggression and fraud—the traditional classical-liberal functions—ostensibly to assure a broader conception of welfare, such as health, retirement security, employment security, education, consumer and worker safety, and so on. We should pay close attention to words. [...]
1Feb2005 | Sheldon Richman | 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 | ContinuedThe Primacy of Property Rights and the American Founding
David Upham is a doctoral candidate in politics at the University of Dallas. This article is adapted from the essay that won first prize in the 1997 Olive W. Garvey Fellowship program of the Independent Institute, Oakland, Calif. Progressives in the twentieth century have in large part aimed at turning the American people away from [...]
1Feb1998 | David Upham | 0 comments | ContinuedOur Most Precious Resource
Mr. Zarbin, a retired newspaperman, does historical research and writing in Phoenix, Arizona. More often than I can recall, I have heard people, especially at school graduations, say that children are our (the nation’s, the country’s) most precious resource. This declaration always chills me. Children are not a resource, metaphorically or otherwise. Children are growing, [...]
1Nov1996 | Earl Zarbin | 1 comment | Continued-
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