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, [...]
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 leadership without [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 against the [...]
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 [...]
Posted by Dave Prychitko
Considering both economic theory and the historical record, it is reasonable to believe that if a society tries to abolish the market economy it will find that it abolishes the wealth-generation and long-run growth that only a market system can provide, and, on top of that, it will become more undesirably statist [...]
For Freedom’s Sake was launched with a commitment to bring our readers the best and most thoughtful analysis which will help you navigate through the fog of the political rhetoric that obfuscates the loss of our freedoms as government, of any stripe, encroaches upon them. In that vein, I must recommend that you read [...]
