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Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, influenced the French Revolution with his political philosophy and his social contract theory. The perspective of many of today’s environmentalists can be traced back to Rousseau, espousing that all degenerates in man’s hands. The Social Contract (1972), his most important work, outlines the basis for a legitimate political order within a framework of classical republicanism.

Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, best known work is Leviathan (1651) which established social contract theory. His liberal thinking included: The right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order; the view that all legitimate political power must be representative; and a liberal interpretation of law.

John Locke, 1632-1704, was the Father of Classical Liberalism. Human beings in their rationality are in God’s image. His law of nature was ethical and universal. Human preservation was tantamount. Each person has a property in himself. Property precedes government.

Aristotle, 384-322 BC, joined Plato’s Academy in Athens at eighteen and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. He was not a citizen of Athens. His writings constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy.

Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, was an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism. Thomas attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity.

Intellectual historians want to look at the past to find questions of value. Greeks are considered the start of political philosophy. Plato, 428-348 BCE, is the most famous. Plato’s teacher, Socrates, was killed by Athenian democracy.

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Originally broadcast on the “Liberty Forum” television program, hosted by Michael Probst; Montgomery, Alabama.

Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association: “Energy: Fossil and Bio-Business, Technical, and Economic Co

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Boom-busts were a feature of markets. Under consumption caused the depression. WWII ended the Great Depression. All three Keynesian beliefs were inaccurate. Only the Austrian Business Cycle Theory got it right.

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As interviewed by Mark Carbonero on the “Wake Up Monterey” radio program, 18 April 2007; KION, 1460 AM

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, “Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times,” Saturday, 14 April 2007, sponsored by Je

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, “Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times,” Saturday, 14 April 2007, sponsored by Je

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Edward Stringham presents Extensions of Rothbardian Anarchist Analytics at the 2007 Austrian Scholars Conference.