laissez-faire
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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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Economics
Economic Ideas: Adam Smith on Free Trade, Crony Capitalism, and the Benefits from Commercial Society
by Richard Ebeling December 21, 2016Adam Smith’s central contribution to economic understanding was surely his demonstration that under an institutional arrangement of individual liberty, property rights, and voluntary exchange the self-interested conduct of market participants could be shown to be consistent with a general betterment of the human condition.
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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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Economics
Economic Ideas: Francis Hutcheson and a System of Natural Liberty
by Richard Ebeling November 27, 2016Scotland would seem a strange place for the emergence of center of intellectual development that would influence the stream of ideas throughout the world. Scotland had been unified with England near the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was considered a “backwater” of European civilization.