All Posts Tagged With: "utilitarianism"
Capital Letters — Does Utilitarianism Deserve Bashing?
In an otherwise meritorious article (“The ‘Risk’ of Liberty: Criminal Law in the Welfare State,” September 2008), Michael N. Giuliano parrots the tiresome old bashing of utilitarian ethics. (He sometimes says “consequentialism,” but since versions of utilitarianism make up almost the entire set of consequentialist doctrines, the distinction is unnecessary here.) “The main component of [...]
27Apr2009 | mnolan | 2 comments | ContinuedThe “Risk” of Liberty: Criminal Law in the Welfare State
Michael Giuliano is an attorney editor at Thomson Reuters. The word crime has come to include an ever-increasing assortment of activities that do not fit the intuitive meaning of the word. The law has criminalized behavior deemed risky or undesirable and actions or status having only vague relationships to undefined harms. The lawmaking process under [...]
1Sep2008 | Michael N. Giuliano | 4 comments | ContinuedWas Dickens Really a Socialist?
I have been an avid fan of Charles Dickens’s works since before entering high school. I have also adhered to the freedom philosophy for about as long. Therefore, as the years passed and I read more and more commentators lauding Dickens as a catalyst for collectivist economics and state-centered social programs, I grew discouraged and [...]
1Dec2006 | William E. Pike | 8 comments | ContinuedHazlitt’s “The Foundations of Morality”
Leland Yeager is the Ludwig von Mises Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Auburn University and the Paul Goodloe McIntire Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation (Elgar, 2002). Editor’s Note: In 1964 Henry Hazlitt published what would [...]
1Nov2004 | Leland B. Yeager | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2004
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments by Benjamin Constant Liberty Fund • 2003 • 558 pages • $22 hardcover; $12 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Nowhere does one find such clear and lucid expositions and defenses of human liberty as those found among the French classical liberals of the nineteenth century, a group [...]
1Jun2004 | FEE Admin | 6 comments | ContinuedDecency Requires a Minimum-Wage Law?
The libertarian cliché that “at least the Republicans are right on economic policies” suffered another setback on the August 11, 2003, Los Angeles Times op-ed page, where Republican Douglas MacKinnon argues that anyone who cares about the poor should be ashamed of the failure of the Senate to raise the minimum wage. His essay is [...]
1Mar2004 | Aeon J. Skoble | 0 comments | ContinuedHuman Action
Hillsdale College Press · 2000 · 305 pages · $9.95 paperback Reviewed by Bettina Bien Greaves For years Hillsdale College has published annual anthologies in honor of Ludwig von Mises. In the beginning these were slim volumes, consisting only of addresses made at the college by visiting dignitaries. Since Richard Ebeling joined Hillsdale’s economics faculty [...]
1Oct2001 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | ContinuedEgalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays by Murray Rothbard, edited by David Gordon
Ludwig von Mises Institute • 2000 • 321 pages • $15.00 paperback Young students of music, if they are at all serious about the subject, must sooner or later be introduced to Bach. Whatever else one might play or study, music without Bach would be terribly incomplete. Older musicians understand that they must introduce the [...]
1Jul2001 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedWritten on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law by J. Budziszewski
InterVarsity Press • 1997 • 252 pages • $15.99 The canard that free-market economists are so narrowly focused on economic concerns that they miss the big picture seems as indestructible as it is indefensible. It was Ludwig von Mises, after all, who said that one cannot be a good economist if he is only an [...]
1Jan1999 | Robert Batemarco | 0 comments | ContinuedOn Trial Again
Ms. Kapushion is a freshman at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, where she is majoring in economics with a particular emphasis on the Austrian school of thought. For the last three years, beginning at age fifteen, I have taught myself philosophy straight from the great works of Western thought, and have formally and informally studied economics. [...]
1Mar1997 | Meredith Kapushion | 1 comment | Continued-
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