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, [...]
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 Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) has just published its November issue of The Freeman. As our readers know, FEE is one of our favorite liberty defending educational organizations.
In this issue of The Freeman topics range from government health care, government motors, the cash for clunkers fiasco, hedge funds, the stealth expansion [...]
Mises Daily by Robert Montgomery | Posted on 9/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
When the news of young America’s novel design for living in freedom reached it, the Old World shook its head with profound skepticism. It would never work, they said. The idea was too “revolutionary,” too “progressive,” too “radical,” and certainly too “liberal.” The prevailing [...]
Where do I compromise in my efforts to communicate the principles and ideas that guide me in my efforts to preserve and restore individual liberty? How well do I know the arguments, history and practice of freedom, its proponents, and its enemies?
These questions, which I believe are critical to the restoration and protection [...]
Lawrence Reed became the president of FEE on September 1 2008. To honor the occasion, we reprint his first “Ideas and Consequences” column, which was originally published in The Freeman in April 1994.
Imagine playing a game—baseball, cards, “Monopoly,” or whatever—in which there was only one rule: anything goes.
You could discard the “instruction book” from the [...]
Originally published in the Freeman By Benjamin A. Rogge • September 1963 • Volume: 13 • Issue: 9
Basic Values Considered
Inasmuch as my own value systems and my own assumptions about human beings are so important to the case, I want to sketch them for you.
To begin with, the central value in my choice system is [...]
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” income [...]
If you really want to understand the causes of the boom and bust cycles of our economy you need to study the Austrian schools, theory of the trade cycle. Donald Boudreaux, chairman of the economics department at George Mason University, does an excellent job of boiling it down, for the non-economist, into the basic [...]
By Leonard E. Read
A professor writes, “It seems to me that it is quite an unworthy goal for businessmen to go to work for the sake of bringing profit to the stock-holders.”
The head of a large corporation bemoans the bad image of business and contends that the first consideration of American business is, when [...]
