All Posts Tagged With: "liberalism"
Libertarianism Today
Libertarianism is attracting more attention than ever. As the economic and social damage done by Leviathan increases exponentially Americans are coming to understand that government power is the root of our many troubles. The idea that a consistent philosophy based on freedom and peaceful cooperation among all people is the only path out of the [...]
26Oct2011 | George C. Leef | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
This collection of essays tries to trace the influence, define the ideology, and question the validity or propriety of the philosophy known as “neoliberalism.” The book is structured around the notion that this term can be fruitfully defined as the ideas promoted by the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS). The MPS was an organization of academics [...]
21Sep2011 | Brian Doherty | 2 comments | ContinuedDiversity, Ends, and Rules
The liberal order is the only way to achieve a society in which diverse preferences, values, and ends are truly respected.
10Feb2011 | Steven Horwitz | 8 comments | ContinuedThe Function of The Freeman
Our function is to expound and apply the principles of traditional liberalism and individual freedom, and to expose the errors of collectivism of all shades.
25Jun2010 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedHow We’ll Know When We’ve Won
“Are we winning?” That’s a query I hear almost every time I speak to an audience about liberty and the battle of ideas. Everyone wants to know if we should be upbeat or distraught about the course of events, as if the verdict should determine whether or not we continue the fight. Too many friends [...]
19Apr2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Political Economy of John Taylor of Caroline
As noted in the May Freeman, American revolutionaries mixed classical-republican and liberal political languages somewhat indiscriminately. Republicanism posited a relation between power and property in which independent proprietors were the bulwark of liberty. English critics of post-1688 Whig mercantilism deployed republican ideas, leading many historians to paint them as “agrarians” resisting capitalism, modernization, and social [...]
1Jun2008 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | ContinuedReason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
By Robert Reich Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Mar2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises: The Political Economist of Liberty, Part II
Mises’s defense of classical liberalism against the various forms of collectivism was not limited “merely” to the economic benefits of private property.
1Jun2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises: The Political Economist of Liberty, Part 1
Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE. Over a professional career that spanned almost three-quarters of the twentieth century, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises was without any exaggeration one of the leading and most important defenders of economic liberty. The ideas of individual freedom, the market economy, and limited government that he defended in [...]
1May2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedI, Liberal
In October a few of us at FEE traveled all the way to Tbilisi, Georgia, one of the former Soviet Union’s imperial possessions, to put on a two-day student seminar in the political economy of freedom. Georgia is a scenic country with gracious people. We enjoyed warm hospitality throughout our visit. The Georgians are struggling [...]
1Feb2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedFree Markets, the Rule of Law, and Classical Liberalism
The history of liberty and prosperity is inseparable from the practice of free enterprise and respect for the rule of law. Both are products of the spirit of classical liberalism. But a correct understanding of free enterprise, the rule of law, and liberalism (rightly understood) is greatly lacking in the world today. Historically, liberalism is [...]
1May2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews
Rethinking the Great Depression: A New View of Its Causes and Consequences by Gene Smiley Ivan R. Dee • 2002 • 169 pages • $24.95 Reviewed by George C. Leef Recently, I found myself in an e-mail argument with a friend who is intelligent and well-educated—but not in economics. I had made the point that the best macroeconomic policy is one [...]
1Sep2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Strange Death of American Liberalism, by H.W. Brands
The Strange Death of American Liberalism by H.W. Brands Yale University Press • 2001 • 191 pages • $22.50 Reviewed by George C. Leef H.W. Brands is a prolific historian with some readable books to his credit, such as his biography of Ben Franklin, The First American. In The Strange Death of American Liberalism, however, [...]
29Jan2003 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedHarmony from Liberty
Contributing editor Norman Barry 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). As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Bastiat we are reminded once again of how much contemporary economic [...]
1Jun2001 | Norman Barry | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Perils of Positive Rights
Tibor Machan is a professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University. One of the most powerful ideas opposed to the free society is a notion political philosophers call “positive rights.” Sounds good, doesn’t it? What could be wrong with being positive? Sounds like something out of Anthony Robbins or Norman Vincent [...]
1Apr2001 | Tibor R. Machan | 5 comments | ContinuedOriginal Liberalism
Richard Ebeling is Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at Hillsdale College. In January 1914 there appeared three articles in one of the leading newspapers in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, world-renowned member of the Austrian school of economics and a three-time minister of finance. He warned his [...]
1Feb2001 | James Peron | 0 comments | ContinuedAfter Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
Americans have given up freedom and self-government for a mess of pottage. Modern “liberalism,” argues political science professor Paul Gottfried in his insightful new book, rests on a “patricide” of the older liberalism. Whereas liberalism and democracy were once opposed concepts, they are now conflated, to the great detriment of the former. Meanwhile, “democracy,” which [...]
1Oct2000 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | Continued-
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