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 [...]
Tag Archives: Steve Horwitz
Hayek on Interpreting The Road to Serfdom
Posted in Socialism, Tyranny Also tagged Federick Hayek, Road to Serfdom, The Coordination Problem Leave a comment
We Should Be Free Because We Are Equal
The Calling | Steven Horwitz Posted July 07, 2011 at The Freeman Last week’s column, “The Other Principle of Classical Liberalism,” generated some interesting comments, as did similar arguments I made at Bleeding Heart Libertarians and on my Facebook page. One criticism raised was that libertarianism has little to do with equality because it’s all [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Equality, Uncategorized Also tagged Adam Smith, Classical Liberalism, David Levy, Equality, John Stuart Mill, Libertarian, The Freeman Leave a comment
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, [...]
Posted in Battle for Liberty, Fascism, Individual Liberty, Socialism Also tagged Audi, Enviro Politics, F. A. Hayek, FEE, Green Police, Propaganda, St. Lawrence University, The Freeman, The Road to Serfdom 1 Comment
You Can’t Count What You Can’t See
Posted by Steven Horwitz, Guest Blogger at 4:10 PM on 02/02/10 on the NBR Blog HT to Steve Horwitz at the Coordination Problem Blog Over the weekend, the White House released a report indicating that the stimulus program had directly funded about 600,000 jobs and indirectly “created or saved” a total of 1.5 to 2 [...]
Posted in Economics 101 Also tagged Coordination Problem, Frederic Bastiat, Milton Friedman, White House Leave a comment
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 [...]
Posted in Socialism, Tyranny Also tagged Dictatorship, F. A. Hayek, Gustav Cassel, Planned Economy, Tyranny Leave a comment
“Advocates Of Freedom Should Set A Good Example”
Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University and I have grown to respect his intellect and the integrity with which he conducts himself in his profession. In an article, just posted on The Freeman, Professor Horwitz addresses the need for the defenders of freedom to stay on the [...]
Posted in Markets and Morality Also tagged liberty, St. Lawrence University, The Freeman Leave a comment
History of Austrian Economics – Israel Kirzner
Dr. Israel Kirzner kicked off FEE’s Advanced Austrian Economics seminar with a terrific presentation on the history of Austrian Economics. This is a excellent opportunity to learn from one of Ludwig von Mises’s student’s who carries the torch of the Austrian School of Economics. Dr. Steve Hortwiz, another Austrian School economist, says of Dr. Krizner, [...]
Ought Implies Can
By Steven Horwitz • The Freeman, April 2009 • Volume: 59 • Issue: 4 One of the most common objections to free markets is that they ignore ethical considerations. In particular, critics argue that there are many things we “ought” to do that they believe will make people’s lives better off. We ought to “redistribute” [...]
Posted in Economics and Ethics Also tagged Daniel Shapiro, David Prychitko, Economists, Ethics, F. A. Hayek, The Freeman, Welfare State Leave a comment
Let’s Clear Away the Fog Surrounding the Economic Recovery Debate
Simple and clear analysis like Dr. Boettke’s excellent post, “Some Basic Economics of Public Policy,” [posted below] and that of fellow economist Dr. Steve Horwitz are the kinds of arguments that will help the average citizen see through the fog so prevalent in Washington, D.C. An excerpt from Dr. Horwitz’s post and the link follow: [...]
Posted in Economics 101, Free Markets Also tagged Family Planning Policy, George Mason University, Liberals, Stimulus Package, Stimulus Plan Leave a comment
