Governments don’t like it when neighboring countries offer freedoms not available at home. The presence of a more-free jurisdiction right across the border can lead to out-migration and local demands for similar freedoms in the home territory. So states seek to punish, annex, or persecute their non-conforming neighbors.
In books such as Democracy: The God that Failed and
The vastly greater productivity of a relatively-free populace makes for greater per capita tax revenue.
The idea of freedom encompasses more than economics. It must also consider philosophy, law, religion, history, and culture. These were themes dealt with in the work of Murray N.
F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture:
“Two Constructions of Libertarianism“
Chandran Kukathas (Australian National University)
Libertarians must never compromise, even if it means accepting partial victories, writes Murray N. Rothbard.
Directed by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
The first-ever libertarians were the Levellers, an English political movement active in the seventeenth century.
Interviewed by host Redmond Weissenberger, Mark Thornton discusses markets, Keynes, Keynesians, and general economic craziness.
Enemies of laissez faire wish to saddle it with much unsavory baggage, writes Frank Chodorov.
