All Posts Tagged With: "responsibility"
Why Not More Liberty?
There are two extreme views of American government and the political process. One is that policy is the result of special interests rigging the system in their favor and exploiting the ignorant or at least impotent masses. The other is that government pretty much gives the people what they want. My own view is much [...]
5Jul2010 | Russell Roberts | 0 comments | Continued
The Burden of Responsibility
Life is an unending series of choices and, therefore, “problems in living.” Ordinary choices—what to have for breakfast—we ignore as trivial. Extraordinary choices—whether to kill ourselves (or worse)—we dismiss as the symptoms of mental illness. The profession of psychiatry rests on, and caters to, the ubiquitous human desire to avoid, evade, and deny the very [...]
1Dec2008 | Thomas Szasz | 2 comments | ContinuedMarkets and Freedom
The social cooperation that emerges in free markets permits the specialization on which prosperity depends. We would be much poorer without the specialization that is possible only when large numbers of people can coordinate production and consumption through market exchange. But even more important than the material wealth we realize from the marketplace is the [...]
1Sep1998 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedHow to Get Action
Leonard E. Read established FEE in 1946 and served as its president until his death in 1983. This article is excerpted from Essays on Liberty, Vol. III (1958), pp. 102-109. It is the eighth in a monthly series commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mr. Read’s birth. “I want less talk and more action.” Thus speak [...]
1Aug1998 | Leonard E. Read | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Gift of a Child: The Promise of Freedom
Clark Durant currently serves on the State Board of Education in Michigan and is the immediate past president of the Board. He is also the chairman of the Cornerstone Schools. He and his wife, the former Susan Sparks, have four children. A child. What a blessing. Laughter. A sense of discovery and curiosity. Faith—at first—that [...]
1Jun1997 | Clark Durant | 0 comments | ContinuedLaw, Custom, and the Commons
Dr. Simmons heads the political science department of Utah State University and is a senior associate of PERC (Political Economy Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana. Free and unregulated access to scarce resources has long been recognized as a serious problem. Two thousand years ago Aristotle wrote: “What belongs in common to the most people is [...]
1Feb1997 | Randy T. Simmons | 0 comments | ContinuedTaking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life
Mr. Madden is an instructor in communication at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Responsibility is a favorite buzzword on the current political scene. Yet even many conservatives have a faulty notion of what the concept actually entails. In his latest book, psychologist Nathaniel Branden sets forth a sound approach to this critical issue. [...]
1Oct1996 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | Continued-
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