All Posts Tagged With: "libertarianism"
Murray Rothbard
In 1946 the fledgling Foundation for Economic Education published a pamphlet titled “Roofs or Ceilings: The Current Housing Problem,” a brief against rent control written by two unknown young economists: Milton Friedman and George Stigler. They would go on to win the Nobel Prize in economics in 1976 and 1982, respectively. That’s a remarkable story. [...]
24Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerican Exceptionalism: Is it Nationalism in Disguise?
I’ve been disturbed lately by the increased usage of the phrase “American Exceptionalism.” One longstanding critique of conservatism is that the word “conservative” has no substantial meaning beyond indicating a resistance to change. Conservatives therefore spend too much time trying to backfill an empty concept with whatever ideas they need to pass the popular agenda item [...]
9Mar2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 4 comments | ContinuedLong on Rand
I can’t recommend Roderick Long’s article “The Winnowing of Ayn Rand” too strongly. Read it here.It’s one of the responses to an essay by Douglas Rasmussen, “Why Ayn Rand: Answers and Some Questions for Discussion.”
21Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedTGIF: Murray Rothbard
Those who cherish liberty cannot calculate their debt to Murray Rothbard. Read TGIF here.
15Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedMurray Rothbard
Those who cherish liberty cannot calculate their debt to Murray Rothbard.
15Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Calling: Remembering Rothbard
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the death of Murray Rothbard, arguably the most important libertarian theorist of the twentieth century. Although I only met him once in person, his work was influential in developing my “calling” in a number of ways, and the way he approached his scholarly and activist work for libertarianism [...]
14Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedIs the Name “Capitalism” Worth Keeping? Part 2
The deeper problem with the terms “capitalism” and “socialism” is that they don’t indicate the institutional arrangements under the systems would operate
7Jan2010 | Steven Horwitz | 21 comments | ContinuedWhat Next?
Before we can work to change things, we must know what we are trying to change. Have a happy, healthy, productive New Year. We have work to do.
1Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 4 comments | ContinuedHow “Intellectual Property” Impedes Competition
Any consideration of “intellectual property rights” must start from the understanding that such “rights” undermine genuine property rights and hence are illegitimate in terms of libertarian principle. Real, tangible property rights result from natural scarcity and follow as a matter of course from the attempt to maintain occupancy of physical property that cannot be possessed [...]
23Sep2009 | Kevin A. Carson | 14 comments | ContinuedThere's a Totalitarian in All of Us
These are moments of clarity. I woke up this morning and went bleary-eyed into the kitchen to discover I was out of coffee. Truth is, I knew I was running out and had just forgotten to go to the store. I live next to a middle school. At 7:30 in the morning, the crossing guard [...]
9Sep2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 5 comments | ContinuedLost Liberty
Cartoonist, and avid FEE supporter, Stephen Kristoff drew us a present (check out his other cartoons):
3Sep2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Encyclopedia of Libertarianism
There have been all sorts of books about libertarianism, from introductory treatises to memoirs and biographies of important figures in the field to histories such as Brian Doherty’s significant Radicals for Capitalism. But until now there has been no encyclopedia of libertarianism, no one-volume reference work that college students or intellectually adventurous adults could use [...]
11Jun2009 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat We Believe
The Foundation for Economic Education, publisher of this magazine since 1956, is now in its seventh decade, and I am now in my seventh month as its president. As we expand the outreach of our programs and publications, now is a good time to remind our readers who we are and what we believe in. [...]
2Mar2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 8 comments | ContinuedHarry Reid – “Taxation Is Not Coercive”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirms in this interview what some of us have long suspected–namely that politicians are mostly those individuals too out of touch with reality to be capable of finding employment anywhere else!
11Dec2008 | Mason Drake | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat's So Funny, Chris?
Chris Matthews, host of “Hardball” on MSNBC (it really should be called Nerf Ball), last night found the idea of an African-American libertarian laughable. Now why in the world would he want to insult African-Americans that way?
12Nov2008 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedFree Market vs. Corporatism
Roderick Long, professor of philosophy at Auburn University and a Freeman author, has an excellent article at Cato Unbound on why libertarians are too often mistaken for defenders of corporatism. This error is tragic not only because it is an error — no two things could differ more starkly than laissez faire and the corporate [...]
11Nov2008 | Sheldon Richman | 9 comments | ContinuedWho Needs Evidence?
Around the corner from FEE's offices, on Main Street in
Irvington, N.Y., there's a life-size statue of Rip Van Winkle awakening from his
20-year slumber. After reading Jacob Weisberg's Newsweek and Slate
columns this week, I feel as though I must have been asleep for an equally long
time. According to Weisberg, editor in chief of Slate, the financial
turmoil taking place worldwide is the fault of . . . libertarians. That
must mean libertarians have been in a position to repeal generations of
deep-seated government intervention in the financial and related industries,
including the Federal Reserve system. That would have taken a long time, yet
I don't recall reading that a libertarian revolution occurred in the United
States. Surely it would have been in the newspapers. Hence, I must conclude that
I, like old Rip, was slumbering all those years. I missed the revolution! It's
the only possible explanation. Unless Weisberg is wrong.
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25Oct2008 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | Continued
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