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 [...]
By Peter Boettke, Ph.D.
“The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.” –Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.
Few concepts have been more important for human survival, yet maligned as unjust by intellectuals, as the concept of private property rights. Since at least [...]
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 [...]
Originally printed in The Freeman: By Benjamin A. Rogge • September 1963 • Volume: 13 • Issue: 9
My economic philosophy is here offered with full knowledge that it is not generally accepted as the right one. On the contrary, my brand of economics has now become Brand X, the one that is never selected as [...]
The road to the restoration of liberty is going to be long and fraught with ups and downs. Many don’t even know that our liberties are being usurped and that statism has arrived. Some don’t want to know because they are our “weaker brethren,” and they prefer to just “believe” everything [...]
In an excellent article, by Janet Daley, entitled, “G20: If capitalism is ‘overthrown’, we’ll lose our political freedom,” Daley discusses the importance of understanding what is really at stake at the G20 Summit. “The question we are wrestling with now,” writes Daley, “– and which the G20 will certainly fail to resolve – is [...]
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 [...]
“ In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson
For those of us who love individual liberty, free-markets and limited government, we face each day, burdened, with more news of the march toward socialism and the [...]
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 [...]
“Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas.” - Lord Action
As I watch our political “leaders” vote to steal the wealth of our children and grandchildren, as I watch our nation running to embrace the concepts of socialism as a solution for the nation’s economic crisis, I must say I [...]
