Social Scientists, Schooling, and the Acculturation of Immigrants in 19th Century America
Public schools have always been central to government's ability to propagandize in favor of a single, homogenized, national system of government.
Journal of Libertarian Studies
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Origins of the Welfare State in America
The two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest.
The Hayekian Model of Government in an Open Society
The central problem that confronts modern libertarian political theory is how to place limits on the number and kinds of intrusions in which government may engage — and how to ensure that it will confine itself to these limits.
Laissez-Faire and Little Englanderism: The Rise, Fall, Rise, and Fall of the Manchester School
War follows protection. Peace follows free trade. As David Ricardo said, “If you want peace, starve the government.”
Anderson, Hazlitt, and the Quantity Theory of Money
It was Benjamin Anderson who injected in Hazlitt a radical distaste of inflationary policies and paper money.
The Opponents of Public Education: New York State, 1870-1880
Significant opposition surrounded the development of state supported public secondary and higher education in New York State throughout the latter nineteenth century.
Monarchy and War
It is important to understand the relationship between monarchy and war, and between monarchy and warfare.
Gustave de Molinari and The Anti-statist Liberal Tradition, Part 3
Molinari believed that if the market were given a chance to operate free from the restrictions of the state, it would satisfy all means voluntarily.
Gustave de Molinari and The Anti-statist Liberal Tradition, Part 2
Molinari's most original contribution to political and economic thought is his thesis that the market can provide the service of police protection.
Gustave de Molinari and the Anti-statist Liberal Tradition, Part 1
Gustave de Molinari was the last of the great nineteenth-century French laissez-faire liberals.
