Published 2013 by the Mises Institute

Digital edition December 2013 by the Mises Institute

Published under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

ISBN: 978-1-61016-589-1

eISBN: 978-1-61016-626-3

Butler Shaffer knows how to make people question their fundamental assumptions. He sometimes asks his students at Southwestern Law School, where for many years he has been professor of law, to vote between two candidates.

Adams, Walter, 45

“Anything goes” principle, 49

Autonomy, the need for, 11

Bentham, Jeremy, 19

Boundaries of Order (Shaffer, Butler), 11, 17, 19

Burckhardt, Jacob, 53

Cave paintings, ancient, 36

Change vs. rigidity, 52 f.

Change, prevention of, 51

Chaos and complexity, 50

Civilization, effect of creativity on progress of, 53

Common Law, copyrights in, 23

Common pool of knowledge, 32

Competitive resiliency, effect of firm size on, 46

In GIVE ME LIBERTY, Rose Wilder Lane has expanded her sensational Saturday Evening Post leading article, “Credo.” This was the first candid, personal account of the changing of an American’s mind, from an uncritical acceptance of socialist-communist—New-Deal philosophy to an understanding of American values.

By

Rose Wilder Lane

A REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION

OF THE BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1936

The CAXTON PRINTERS, Ltd.

Caldwell, Idaho

1954