All Posts Tagged With: "personal freedom"
The Wisdom of Nien Cheng
Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai (1986), died in Washington last November at the age of 94. She was an incredibly courageous woman and the embodiment of grace and wisdom. She loved traditional Chinese culture, but her world was shattered on August 30, 1966, when the Red Guards ransacked her home and, [...]
24Mar2010 | James A. Dorn | 4 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 | ContinuedAaron Director on the Market for Goods and Ideas
Aaron Director, one of the outstanding American economists of the twentieth century, died September 11, 2004, at the age of 102. Few people outside the circle of professional economists have heard of him. This is partly because he published very little, either of a scholarly or popular nature. His greatest influence was through his teaching [...]
1Nov2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Tyranny of Good Intentions by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton
Forum • 2000 • 242 pages • $24.95 How safe are people from the encroachments of government into their lives? That has varied from place to place and time to time. In Stalin’s Soviet Union, for example, people had no security whatever. The rulers could do with them as they pleased because the concept of [...]
1Jun2001 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedMost Important
Mr. Jacobson teaches English in senior high school at Anoka, Minnesota. The most important people are the farmers, so it is said, for they feed the nation. Laborers, however, are just about as important because they do the real work. On the other hand, were it not for the doctors and for medical science, our [...]
1Jul1956 | Victor Jacobson | 0 comments | Continued-
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