All Posts Tagged With: "nationalism"
Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
The abysmal 2008 presidential election should have Americans scratching their heads, pondering how the political economy of the United States devolved into a duopoly of two nearly identical, state-loving political parties that are always ready to intervene militarily anywhere on the planet.
It was not always this way, and how we got here is the focus [...]
Slick Construction Under the Articles of Confederation
Writing lately on the Fourth Amendment, Professor Thomas Y. Davies decries the “originalism” practiced by certain Supreme Court justices and sundry legal commentators. On historical-hermeneutic grounds, he faults face-value originalism for missing “the shared, implicit assumptions that informed the public meaning” on which a given constitutional provision rested. Underlying the Fourth Amendment were common-law rules [...]
1Apr2008 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 1 comment | ContinuedSavoring “Three Cups of Tea”: An Essay on the Future of Politics
How can we make the world a better place? Truly this has been the $64,000 question of the modern age, and politicians and ideologists have bloodied the twentieth century clamoring against each other to offer the world their answer. Yet strangely, these disputing politicians and ideologists have all shared a basic premise. They have assumed [...]
1Apr2008 | James L. Payne | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – November 2006
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Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
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Ludwig 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 | Continued“The Tariff is the Mother of Trusts”
Why should we expect business people to favor laissez faire and to abhor government intervention? Few people outside of business do so.
1Jun2006 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedF. A. Hayek and The Road to Serfdom: A Sixtieth-Anniversary Appreciation
Sixty years ago this month, in March 1944, The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek was first published in Great Britain. For six decades it has continued to challenge and influence the political- economic landscape of the world. Hayek delivered an ominous warning that political trends in the Western democracies were all in the [...]
1Mar2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedFrom Pennsylvania to Verdun: Friedrich List and the Origins of World War I
Steven Davies is a senior lecturer in history at Manchester Metropolitan University in England.
World War I, or the “Great War” (as most Europeans still call it), was one of the biggest disasters in human history. It not only killed and maimed millions, the cream of a generation, it also destroyed the liberal, cosmopolitan system that [...]
William E. Rappard: An International Man in an Age of Nationalism
Richard Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at Hillsdale College.
On April 1, 1947, 35 free-market economists, political scientists, philosophers, journalists, and businessmen met at the Swiss Alpine resort of Mont Pèlerin. They had been brought together by F. A. Hayek to found a society of classical [...]
The Economics Of War
Dr. Mises is Visiting Professor of Economies at New York University. This is abridged From a chapter of his book, Human Action (Yale University Press, 1949. 881 pages, $10.00).
The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. It bursts asunder when the citizens turn into warriors and, instead of exchanging commodities and services, fight one another.
The [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
