classical liberalism
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GovernmentLiberty
Not Losing Sight of the Classical Liberal Ideal
by Richard Ebeling January 7, 2020Today, the media and a variety of more serious public policy publications are awash in articles and essays insisting that the postwar “neoliberal” era has finally and inescapably come to an end, with a far more “progressive” and socialist system the way of the future.
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Economics
Wasserman’s Twisted Tale About the Austrian School of Economics
by Richard Ebeling December 12, 2019The Austrian School of Economics has been one of the most original and insightful approaches to economic understanding over the last century and a half.
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Over time, words sometimes change their meanings or connotations.
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FeaturedGovernment
Classical Liberalism and the Limits to Compromise
by Richard Ebeling January 7, 2019The tense and seemingly polarized political environment in America today has raised the issue of whether there is some way to reduce the ideological and government-policy conflicts by finding some middle way between the “extremist” positions.
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Budgets/TaxesGovernmentLiberty
Public Goods, National Defense, and Central Planning
by Richard Ebeling March 2, 2018The competitive market economy is a powerful institutional mechanism for bringing human ingenuity, energy and creativity to bear to improve both the material and cultural circumstances of multitudes of people around the world.
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Nobody likes paying taxes.
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The history of liberty and prosperity is inseparable from the practice of free enterprise and respect for the rule of law.
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Budgets/Taxes
Neo-Liberalism: From Laissez-Faire to the Interventionist State
by Richard Ebeling October 11, 2017One of the most accusatory and negative words currently in use in various politically “progressive” circles is that of “Neo-Liberalism.”
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EconomicsFeaturedLiberty
Economic Ideas: Jean-Baptiste Say and the “Law of Markets”
by Richard Ebeling June 20, 2017Whatever economic freedom we enjoy in the world today is due, to a great extent, to the ideas and efforts of the classical liberals and economists of the first half of the nineteenth century.
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FeaturedGovernmentPolitics
Socialism: Marking a Century of Death and Destruction
by Richard Ebeling March 9, 2017A harrowing experience through Lithuania’s Soviet Era prisons is a reminder of the horrors of the regime and the threats standing even today.
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Education
School Choice Is The Only Way To Save U.S. Education
by David S. D'Amato December 14, 2016Almost all Americans seem to acknowledge the failures of the government school system; today’s disagreements and debates are confined only to causes and proposed solutions.
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Budgets/TaxesGovernmentLegal Affairs
Property Rights: The Root of Freedom
by David S. D'Amato November 23, 2016A man’s home, as the saying goes, is his castle. For socialists and even many progressives, however, private property is an obstacle to be overcome, the source of the capitalist’s power to exploit, a privilege that must yield to broader social justice concerns.