Topic: History

Reasons for Hope

– September 30, 2019

The world would be a tiny bit less free and the economy faintly less productive without each of the many, mostly small, contributions to classical-liberal scholarship and to the sharing of liberal ideas with the public.

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James M. Buchanan: A Centenary Appreciation

– September 26, 2019

Born on a Tennessee farm 100 years ago on October 3, Buchanan came of age when the ideas of John Maynard Keynes reached their zenith among economists.

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The Myth of Heroism

– September 24, 2019

“History and human progress are driven far more by ordinary people doing sometimes extraordinary things than by special people with a unique destiny.” ~ Stephen Davies

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My Life as an Austrian Economist and a Classical Liberal

– September 24, 2019

Economist Richard Ebeling reflects on his life and career, learning from and being colleagues with many of the greats, from Rand to Hayek to Morgenstern to Rothbard.

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Count Me Among the Fans of Downton Abbey

– September 22, 2019

The real story of anarchy – life without the state – is not one of chaos but the opposite: our failing as a civilization is that we probably have an overly competent propensity to create social systems of control from which we end up having to rebel from time to time.

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Maybe It’s Good that Politics Has Become Ridiculous

– September 21, 2019

When was the last time vast numbers of people commonly celebrated a domestic achievement of government? You have to go back a half century to the first moon landing.

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Even Swedish Socialism was Violent

– September 18, 2019

Coercive policies extended beyond eugenic sterilization, forced and voluntary.

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Mises’s Human Action After 70 Years

– September 15, 2019

If enough people discover and rediscover the timeless truths in the pages of Human Action, the ideas of Ludwig von Mises may well assist us in stemming the growing tide toward an even larger leviathan state that dangerously looms in front of us.

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Happy Birthday Deirdre McCloskey

– September 11, 2019

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is a one-woman university, a polymath’s polymath in an age of ever-increasing academic specialization. She has done ground-breaking work across several fields, and her academic appointments show it.

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Economics Has Neglected Inequality? Absurdly Untrue

– September 4, 2019

In fact, inequality studies have been a mainstay of the discipline since at least 1948.

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Friends of Freedom, Do Not Despair

– September 3, 2019

We must have the confidence that freedom is both good in itself and need not be compromised in the face of asserted collectivist dangers abroad or the challenges to liberty here at home.

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Private Expeditions in the 19th Century Were Far More Successful

– August 31, 2019

Most of the tragedies – such as the Franklin expedition – were publicly funded. 

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