I am a big fan of Frederic Bastiat and in particular his book The Law. In fact, I put up five posts based on this classical work. Another recent favorite writer of mine is Sheldon Richmond the editor of The Freeman and “In brief,” at the Foundation for Economic Education. In his [...]
Post by Dan Jensen
As we work harder, more and more people feel entitled to the fruits of our hard work. These people have organized and elected a federal government that sees fit to transfer 100% of the tax burden to the upper 49% of wage earners in this country. If successful, please tell [...]
Adam Smith, who lived in the eighteenth century, provided the philosophical and most systematic arguments for the underpinnings of a laissez-faire economic system in his book “The Wealth of Nations.” Smith makes the argument that it was only the interference of government which disrupted the natural working of economic society and created poverty and [...]
One of our goals at For Freedom’s Sake is to provide the underlying principles, philosophical ideas, facts, and the best and most reliable scholarship available on freedom to our readers. In doing so, we hope to enable you to navigate through all of the noise and misinformation which blurs our ability to see our nation’s [...]
