All Posts Tagged With: "self-direction"
Visible and Invisible Hands
Douglas Den Uyl is vice president of educational programs for Liberty Fund. Douglas Rasmussen is a professor of philosophy at St. John’s University . They co-wrote Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (Pennsylvania State University Press). It has often been said that markets are led “as if by an invisible hand” to [...]
1Apr2007 | Douglas B. Rasmussen | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Moral and Cultural Climate of Entrepreneurship
About 40 years ago I learned the following poem. It exemplifies a moral and cultural attitude about not only entrepreneurship, but also the moral purpose of human life itself. Written by Dean Alfange, it is known simply as “My Creed”: I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be [...]
1Mar2006 | Douglas B. Rasmussen | 0 comments | ContinuedWatering the Tree
Though my father is approaching 80 and is no longer able to do as much outdoors, a legacy of his retirement years is the orchard behind my childhood home. After my dad ended his trucking career, he took to heart an activity I would not previously have supposed to be of interest to him. His [...]
1Mar2004 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Market and Political Freedom
John Marangos teaches in the department of economics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. This article is adapted from “Market and Political Freedom” in D. Kartarelis, ed., Business & Economics for the 21st Century, proceedings of the Business and Economics Society International Conference, Athens, Greece, July 18–22, 1997, volume I. The author wishes to thank [...]
1Jun1999 | John Marangos | 2 comments | ContinuedFreedom and the Car
Loren Lomasky teaches philosophy at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. This essay was originally produced as a working paper for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A longer version appeared in Independent Review. Years before the automobile evolved into a transportation necessity, before meandering mudded ruts were replaced by multilaned asphalt, pioneering motorists took to the [...]
1Dec1997 | Loren Lomasky | 2 comments | ContinuedLiberty and Responsibility: Inseparable Ideals
Dr. More is president of Extropy Institute in Marina Del Rey, California. He may be reached at more@extropy.org. The founders of the American political and economic system felt a burning desire to establish a country of unprecedented liberty. Many of those who endured the arduous journey to the New World left behind religious oppression and [...]
1Jul1996 | Max More | 6 comments | Continued-
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