All Posts Tagged With: "voluntarism"
Richard Cornuelle (1927-2011)
Richard Cornuelle passed away early Tuesday morning. He was one of the true princes of the modern classical liberal movement.
29Apr2011 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Those Who Value Liberty Should Rejoice: Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize
Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is also one of the most iconoclastic thinkers to win it. (She shared it with Oliver Williamson.) Professor Ostrom’s work focuses on the mechanisms of self-governance that operate in different societies. Her intellectual curiosity led her to study local public economies—in [...]
18Nov2009 | Peter J. Boettke | 6 comments | ContinuedSavoring “Three Cups of Tea”: An Essay on the Future of Politics
How can we make the world a better place? Truly this has been the $64,000 question of the modern age, and politicians and ideologists have bloodied the twentieth century clamoring against each other to offer the world their answer. Yet strangely, these disputing politicians and ideologists have all shared a basic premise. They have assumed [...]
1Apr2008 | James L. Payne | 28 comments | ContinuedVolunteer Railways in Britain
In 21st-century England you don’t expect to find a fireman shoveling coal into a steam locomotive, but that’s what 59-year old Paul Rimmer does. During his shift on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, he heaves two tons of coal from the tender of engine 45212 into its roaring firebox, a tougher job than almost any [...]
1Jan2008 | James L. Payne | 1 comment | ContinuedHow a Free Society Could Solve Global Warming
The phrase “global warming” has been around for quite some time, but in the past year it has captured the spotlight as never before. One can’t turn on the radio or open a newspaper without facing ads from “green” corporations, or hearing the latest way to reduce one’s “carbon footprint.” With even prominent Republicans (such [...]
1Oct2007 | Gene Callahan | 11 comments | ContinuedProphets of Property
In 1800, fewer than 1 million people lived in London; a century later, well over 6 million. As the 20th century dawned, London had already been the most populous city on the planet for seven decades. Britain’s population as a whole soared from 8 million in 1800 to 40 million in 1900. In the previous [...]
1Jul2007 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Four Mistakes of Nonlibertarians
George Leef is book review editor of The Freeman. In Libertarianism: For and Against (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), two philosophers debate the merits of libertarianism. Arguing in favor is Professor Tibor Machan, a contributing editor to The Freeman. His opponent is Professor Craig Duncan, who attempts a refutation of libertarianism and seeks to persuade readers [...]
1Jun2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedVindicating Voluntaryism
Voluntaryism. Other than to those who have seriously considered the overwhelming case for liberty in human affairs, the word doesn’t have a very catchy ring. As a result, it would not survive vetting by our modern gamut of political focus groups and public-relations gurus. Yet that was what Englishman Auberon Herbert used to describe and [...]
1Nov2006 | Gary M. Galles | 2 comments | ContinuedNo Buts about Freedom
Back in the early 1970s, the late Leonard E. Read, founder and first president of FEE, wrote a short piece in The Freeman called Sinking in a Sea of Buts. He said it was not uncommon or someone to say to him,I agree with you in principle, but . . . The but invariably referred to some exception from the principle of freedom in the form of a desired government intervention. The problem, Read pointed out, is that when everyones exceptions to freedom are added up, well, freedom ends up being sunk by all the buts.
Seeing the World Plain
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. Washington, D.C., is filled with professions of good intentions by politicians and bureaucrats as they steadily strip away Americans’ liberty and money. The political class uses even the most serious social problem to [...]
1Feb2003 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Ain’t Broke: The Renewed Call for Conscription
The draft has been dead for more than a quarter century. Despite a rocky start, the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) now provides America with the highest quality military in its history and the finest armed services in the world. Yet recruiting and retention problems have begun to appear. As a result, there are an increasing number of calls for a return to conscription.
1Feb2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedVoluntarism Should Be Voluntary
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Service is good, so government-provided service must be better. That appears to be the motto of the Clinton administration. And the GOP [...]
1Aug1999 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedRediscovering American Values
“If you want to make a point, tell a story.” In Rediscovering American Values, Dick DeVos, president of Amway Corporation, puts this old advice to excellent use. The theme of his book is that freedom and the many benefits that flow from it cannot exist unless the people of a society adhere to certain values [...]
1May1998 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedLet Property Settle Smoking Disputes
Andrew Cohen teaches philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Public policy debates nowadays are often confused about what ought to count as a “public” policy. Injecting a healthy appeal to individual rights could help resolve disputes by showing just what ought to count as anyone’s proper business. The antismoking hysteria gripping America is [...]
1Feb1998 | Andrew I. Cohen | 2 comments | ContinuedIs Voluntarism Enough?
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. As the Age of Politics (historian Paul Johnson’s label for the twentieth century) winds down, even liberals are championing civil society. Herds [...]
1Aug1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Moral Obligations of Workers
Mr. Tucker is director of research at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama. You hate your boss. Your hours are bad. Your salary is too low, and you haven’t been promoted in years. What’s a worker to do? If you can’t get your way, and just can’t take it anymore, you can quit. In [...]
1May1997 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 1 comment | ContinuedPrivate Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism vs. Coercion
Do you have friends who are socialists? Show them Robert Zimmerman’s chapter, “New York’s War Against the Vans” in Private Means, Public Ends. Zimmerman shows private enterprise efficiently providing much-needed transportation, while the city transit police block passenger pickup, issue summonses, and otherwise harass van operators and passengers. If government is needed to provide such [...]
1Nov1996 | Fred E. Foldvary | 0 comments | Continued-
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