All Posts Tagged With: "Industrial Revolution"
Thomas Babington Macaulay: Extraordinary Eloquence for Liberty
Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks among the most eloquent of all authors on liberty. In terms of the sheer quantity and range of eloquence, perhaps only Thomas Jefferson soared to such breathtaking heights.
1Oct1996 | Jim Powell | 2 comments | ContinuedBerton Braley, Commercial Poet
Mr. Baker is a patented inventor and writer living in Moundsville, West Virginia. His work has appeared in Liberty magazine. Although Ludwig von Mises called the twentieth century “the age of the dictators and tyrants,” it should also be remembered as the century that produced the greatest philosophers of freedom. One of the most tenacious [...]
1Aug1996 | Chris Baker | 2 comments | ContinuedFacts about The Industrial Revolution
Dr. Mises is Visiting Professor of Economics at New York University. An examination of the so-called horrors of the “Industrial Revolution” and the persistent myth that industrial progress is a plot against employees. Socialist and interventionist authors assert that the history of modern industrialism and especially the history of the British “Industrial Revolution” provide an [...]
1Feb1956 | Ludwig von Mises | 4 comments | Continued-
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