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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Hayek on Interpreting The Road to Serfdom
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The Crisis of the European Union: Causes and Significance
Václav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, spoke to friends of Hillsdale College in Berlin during Hillsdale’s 2011 cruise in the Baltic Sea. The speech was delivered at Berlin’s Hotel Adlon on June 11, 2011. As some of you may know, this is not my first contact with Hillsdale College. I vividly remember my [...]
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 – Trailer
I am so excited about this project. This is the trailer for the movie Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and the movie will be in theaters on April 15th. Tax day, how appropriate. Check the Atlas Shrugged Part 1 website.
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The Personal Is the Political: Who makes the tradeoffs?
By Steven Horwitz • Posted February 11, 2010 on The Freeman In the last couple of decades, one of the most popular political slogans on the left, especially among feminists, has been: “The personal is the political.” For feminists the phrase is invoked to point out that the personal choices women make — for example, [...]
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Lost Wisdom: Gustav Cassel on Economic Planning
By Steve Horwitz: Posted on the Coordination Problem Blog Site. This is from a 1934 Cobden Memorial lecture of Gustav Cassel’s entitled “From Protectionism through Planned Economy to Dictatorship”: Planned economy will always tend to develop into Dictatorship…[because] experience has shown that representative bodies are unable to fulfill all the multitudinous functions connected with economic [...]
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Tis the Season
By Peter Boettke: Posted at The Austrian Economist Christopher Warren published a book entitled Congress as Santa Claus in 1932. He put the following question to his readers: If a law to donate aid to any farmer or cattleman who has had poor crops or lost his cattle comes within the meaning of the phrase [...]
The Philosophical Ideas Behind Political Power And Tyranny – Part Two
The citizen is no longer the judge of the dangers to which the law desires him to expose himself; and when the prince says to him: ‘It is expedient for the State that you should die,’ he ought to die, because it is only on that condition that he has been living in security up [...]
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The Philosophical Ideas Behind Political Power And Tyranny – Part One
From the twelfth to the eighteenth century governmental authority grew continuously. The process was understood by all who saw it happening; it stirred them to incessant protest and violent reaction. In later times its growth has continued at an accelerated pace….And now we no longer understand the process, we no longer protest, we no longer [...]
The Goal Is Freedom
GOVERNMENT BIAS By Sheldon Richman • Published: 17 April 2009 on the Foundation For Economic Education Website. Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and “In brief.” He is a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (“Fascism”). Anyone discussing social and economic problems with a hardcore free-market advocate hears a string of indictments [...]
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Tyranny And Abuse By Connecticut Attorney General! This Is Outrageous!
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General is nailed in this interview with Glenn Beck on his abuse of power in going after the AIG bonuses. He admits that there has been no law broken, but, and this is the outrageous part, he says that “they (the AIG executives who got the bonuses) were undeserving of it [...]
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