All Posts Tagged With: "peace"
Indigenous African Free-Market Liberalism
Africa remains an enigmatic paradox: a continent rich in mineral resources yet so desperately poor. But the paradox is only superficial: Africa is poor because she is not free. Only 10 of the 54 African countries can be labeled economic success stories: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Uganda, and South Africa. This [...]
24Aug2011 | George B. N. Ayittey | 5 comments | ContinuedDrug Decriminalization Has Failed?
Michael Gerson, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and now a columnist for the Washington Post, has denounced libertarianism as “morally empty,” “anti-government,” “a scandal,” “an idealism that strangles mercy,” guilty of “selfishness,” “rigid ideology,” and “rigorous ideological coldness.” (He’s starting to repeat himself.) In his May 9 column, “Ron Paul’s Land of Second-Rate [...]
24Aug2011 | David Boaz | 7 comments | ContinuedSocial Cooperation
We should realize that the terms “individualism,” “self-reliance,” and “independence” can lend themselves to undesirable caricatures.
12Aug2011 | Sheldon Richman | 38 comments | ContinuedThe Greatest Commercial Ever?
I can’t resist sharing this classic Coca Cola commercial. It brings a tear to my eye. Watch the men’s faces closely. The spot says so much — far more than Coke intended, I’m sure — without a word spoken. HT: Roderick Long
19Jul2011 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedDeficit Hawks or War Hawks?
Individualist, limited-government, free-market advocates who had fought the New Deal tooth and nail also opposed America’s budding empire.
16Jul2010 | Sheldon Richman | 6 comments | ContinuedWhat’s Sauce for the Goose…
Supporters of Barack Obama’s pro-industry health insurance overhaul are absolutely right to condemn the threats and acts of violence that followed the House vote on Sunday. All decent people should join in that condemnation. It is immoral on its face, not to mention the taint it leaves on the cause of diminishing government power. By [...]
25Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedWar Is Peace
President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.We’ve come a long way since Frederic Passy.
9Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Peace Principle
The key principle of liberalism is peace. Some would say peaceful cooperation is the key. But in a free society one is also free peacefully not to cooperate. Many would say the core principle of liberalism is freedom, and since the word liberalism is derived from the Latin liber, which means free, that is a [...]
1Dec2006 | James Peron | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Economic Causes of War
Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the foremost Austrian economist of the twentieth century, an adviser to FEE from the time of its founding in 1946, and the author of Human Action, Socialism, and The Theory of Money and Credit. This is the major part of a lecture delivered in Orange County, California, in October 1944. [...]
1Apr2004 | Ludwig von Mises | 0 comments | ContinuedSeeing the World Plain
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. Washington, D.C., is filled with professions of good intentions by politicians and bureaucrats as they steadily strip away Americans’ liberty and money. The political class uses even the most serious social problem to [...]
1Feb2003 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedOn Reading History
Economics is the discipline that I loved first and that I continue to love above all. The economic way of thinking—as the late Paul Heyne called it—is a potent solvent for cutting through the nonsense and irrelevancies that typically loom large in policy discussions. No one lacking a solid grasp of economic principles can understand [...]
1Aug2001 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Thomas Friedman has written a very surprising book. Surprising not in what he has written, but in that Thomas Friedman wrote it. Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, and is probably known to readers of Ideas on Liberty as a moderately “liberal” establishment journalist. He is certainly not known as [...]
1Aug2000 | Robert A. Lawson | 0 comments | ContinuedTrade and the Rise of Freedom
Thomas DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. This is adapted from a paper presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference on “’The History of Liberty” at Auburn University, January 29, 2000. It is no exaggeration to say that trade is the keystone of modern civilization. As Murray Rothbard wrote, “The [...]
1Jun2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 2 comments | ContinuedMay the Force Not Be With You
I’m just back from seeing Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace with my 11-year-old son, Ben. The space adventure, full of eye-popping special effects, lives up to expectations. But, alas, I must report on an aspect that will be disappointing to readers of The Freeman. The conflict that is the focus of the movie [...]
1Aug1999 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedRudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace
Since the late nineteenth century, most intellectuals have embraced the illusion that government could somehow be tamed. They promoted a vast expansion of government power supposedly to do good. But the twentieth century turned out to be the bloodiest in human history, confirming the worst fears of classical liberals who had always warned about government [...]
1Jul1997 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedPeace and World Government
The Rev. Mr. Opitz is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. Wars aren’t what they used to be. Men went off to the Spanish-American War with all the excitement of campfire boys on a picnic. Some of them got hurt, of course, and a number succumbed to various diseases. But, [...]
1Jun1956 | Edmund A. Opitz | 1 comment | ContinuedThe 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 [...]
1Nov1955 | Ludwig von Mises | 1 comment | Continued-
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