All Posts Tagged With: "self-responsibility"

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If mind is brain, there is no “psychological” freedom or responsibility — no humanity. And if those don’t exist, there can be no political freedom or self-responsibility. What does not exist cannot be violated.

11Nov2011 | Sheldon Richman | 58 comments | Continued

Too Big to Fail

“Once you lose your freedom to fail, you also lose your freedom to succeed and you cease to be a free society.” —U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas In March 2008 the investment banking firm Bear Sterns failed and the federal government quickly stepped in. The public was inundated with the phrase “too big to fail” [...]

2Mar2009 | Michael Heberling | 8 comments | Continued

Keynesian Economics and Constitutional Government

Last month 650 economists called for an increase in the federal minimum wage, saying it was the responsibility of the government to “improve the well-being of low-wage workers” by mandating the terms under which people may be employed. Among these economists were five recipients of the Nobel Prize in economics. One of them was Lawrence [...]

1Nov2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued

Fifty Years Later

I saw my first copy of The Freeman sometime in 1967, most likely while I was still a senior in high school in Philadelphia. In those days, the magazine was almost pocket-size. A classmate showed me the issue and suggested I contact the Foundation for Economic Education for more. I had never heard that name [...]

1Jan2006 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

On Autogenic Diseases

Our bodies are physico-chemical machines. When the function of the machine deviates from what is generally considered normal and if we regard the deviation as harmful and unwanted, we call the event or process a “disease.” Like all physical-chemical events, diseases have causes, which physicians call “etiology.” The familiar causes of disease are pathogenic microbes, [...]

1May2004 | Thomas Szasz | 2 comments | Continued

Rome and America: The Ideology of Decline

Writing in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville attributed the United States’ commercial success to American merchants’ willingness to face uncertainty and danger. Europeans, he said, wait for good weather and return to port if the ship is damaged; the American “departs while the tempest still roars . . .  while on the go, he repairs his [...]

1May2004 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | Continued

Reflections on Self-Responsibility and Libertarianism

Nathaniel Branden is the author of 20 books, including The Art of Living Consciously, Taking Responsibility, and most recently, My Years with Ayn Rand. His Web site is www.nathanielbranden.net. The traditional American values of individualism, self-reliance, self-discipline, and hard work had their roots, in part, in the fact that this country began as a frontier [...]

1Apr2001 | Nathaniel Branden | 3 comments | Continued

To Be Is to Choose

Left and right critics of free markets sometime level the criticism that capitalism encourages crass consumerism and materialism. Stores and malls proliferate, offering round the clock a dizzying array of products that people did perfectly well without not so long ago. A well-known conservative journalist/political aspirant once said to me, “You’ve walked through the mall. [...]

1Apr2001 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

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