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Economic Philosophy
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Economics
Economic Ideas: Adam Smith on Moral Sentiments, Division of Labor and the Invisible Hand
by Richard Ebeling December 15, 2016Adam Smith is, without doubt, the most famous member of that group of Scottish Moral Philosophers who contributed to the development of social and economic understanding of the market economy and how economic liberty makes human prosperity possible.
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Thanksgiving Was a Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
by Richard Ebeling November 23, 2016This year, when we sit around our dining table with our family and friends, let us also remember that what we are really celebrating is the birth of free men and free enterprise in that New World of America.
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Economics
Economic Ideas: The French Physiocrats and the Case for Laissez-faire
by Richard Ebeling November 3, 2016In the middle decades of the eighteenth century two schools of thought emerged, one in France and the other in Great Britain that were critical of Mercantilism, the government system of economic planning and regulation in the 1700s.