Just getting into a new book, “Climate: The Counter Consensus, A Palaeoclimatologist Speaks” written by Professor Robert M. Carter. I am posting a quote from the book by historian Paul Johnson which sets the stage for what I think will be a great read: The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the [...]
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“Occupy Wall Street Crowd Blind to Benefits of Capitalism”
By Gary Wolfram William Simon Professor of Economics and Public Policy Hillsdale College Whenever I watch media coverage of another Occupy Wall Street event I am reminded of an exchange between Jewish protesters in the 1979 Monte Python movie Life of Brian. One of the protesters asks another what the Romans have brought to the [...]
The Philosophy of Liberty – Video
I just discovered this video and want to make it available to our readers. The text of the video is below and may be quicker to read. The video is eight minutes and 16 seconds long. The message is excellent but the quality of the motion graphics is lacking and a little long. by Ken [...]
Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side?
Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, is one of the most brilliant legal scholars and “the sharpest libertarian thinkers currently alive today,” according to Peter Boettke. I have and am benefiting from reading his books, which include How Progressives [...]
Do you want to live in the world of Atlas Shrugged?
In her masterpiece of fiction, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand emphasizes three key classical liberal themes: individualism, suspicion of centralized power, and the importance of free markets. In this video, Prof. Jennifer Burns shows how Rand’s plot and characters demonstrate these themes, principally through innovative entrepreneurs who are stifled by laws and regulations instituted by their [...]
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Hayek on Interpreting The Road to Serfdom
Posted by Steve Horwitz on October 21, 2011 at 10:51 AM at The Coordination Problem Blog My reading group is tackling the “Principles and Expediency” chapter of Hayek’s Law, Legislation, and Liberty today. I always forget how terrific this chapter is and it’s full of quotable stuff and some of Hayek’s best work on the [...]
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How to Create a Job: Creating Value, Not Just Work
With unemployment still above 9 percent, Americans are searching for answers that will lead to quality, lasting jobs. Past failures of jobs programs show that addressing the symptom instead of the disease has yet to lead to real job growth. Watch this video to learn more. This video is a product of of the Economic [...]
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Orwell’s Armchair
Derek E. Bambauer, Associate Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School, has written an important paper which asserts “America has begun to censor the Internet.” To be published in the University of Chicago Law Review. Defying conventional scholarly wisdom that Supreme Court precedent bars Internet censorship, federal and state governments are increasingly using indirect methods to [...]
It’s the Investment, Stupid
Steven Horwitz: Posted at The Coordination Problem Here is the most important blog post you will read all week, and it comes from the indispensible Bob Higgs. Bob points out that all the talk about “stimulating consumption” is beside the point because consumption spending is not the problem! Real personal consumption spending is now above [...]
John Locke’s Influence on The Declaration of Independence
I discovered John Locke some time ago, but in discovering Greg Forster, I have grown to better understand Locke and appreciate his exhaustive grasp of human nature, philosophy, theology and the historic setting of his life and times and his impact on the principles of our constitutional republic. For Freedom’s Sake was launched for the [...]
