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The Free Market

Human Inaction: Congress and Economics

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government
Dick Armey

It is well-known that bureaucracies, especially governmental bureaucracies, have an unparalleled ability to suffocate innovation. Perhaps not as well known is the ability of those same institutions to ignore systematically well-documented, empirically supportable precepts about how the world really works.

Read_Liberty Legacy of Truth

Liberty: Legacy of Truth

Tags: Introductory, Big Government
Leonard E. Read
Wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, “Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.” The millions of despots, now in the driver’s seat, are swayed not by faith but by that type of ignorance displayed by witch doctors or medicine men and their...
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The New Despotism

Tags: Big Government
Robert A. Nisbet
Nothing seems to have mattered more to such minds as Montesquieu, Turgot, and Burke in Europe and to Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin in the United States than the expansion of freedom in the day-to-day existence of human beings, irrespective of...
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Twilight of Authority

Tags: Intermediate, Big Government
Robert A. Nisbet
This classic occupies an interesting place in libertarian history. The author is a sociologist, one beloved by conservatives. But read closely: his view of what constitutes authority (legitimate authority) flows entirely out of the private...