Francis Hutcheson: Teacher of Adam Smith
Hutcheson brought to Scottish philosophy a solid belief in natural rights and in the beneficence of nature.
World History
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Do the Rich Oppress the Poor?
The entrepreneurs and capitalists owe their wealth to the people who patronize their businesses.
The Libyan People versus Muammar Gaddafi
We are living in an Orwell novel, so it is not expected that anyone would remember President Ronald Reagan’s war on Libya in 1986.
QE2 and Egypt
Higher food prices set off the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and the mass protests in countries like Algeria, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, and Iran.
The Egyptian Crisis and Libertarian Class-Conflict Theory
The fulcrum of popular discontent in Egypt for years has been the fact that a small group of elites, enjoying the support of the US empire, has dominated the direction of country.
Daniel Bernoulli and the Founding of Mathematical Economics
The use of mathematics necessarily leads the economist to distort reality by making the theory convenient for mathematical symbolism and manipulati
Physiocracy and Free Trade in 18th-Century France: Strategy and Influence
It is theoretically conceivable but scarcely likely that the ruling class will rush to embrace a philosophy and a political economy that will end t
Does Gandhi Deserve a Place in the Libertarian Tradition?
If you abjure all violence, you must abjure the state. Thus, while not all libertarians are pacifists, all pacifists are libertarians, whether they realize it or not (and, admittedly, a great many pacifists have not realized it). Gandhi, it appears, did realize it.
A Soviet Foreign Policy: A Revisionist Perspective
It is vital — indeed, it is literally a life-and-death matter — that Americans be able to look as coolly and clear-sightedly, as free from myth, at
A Soviet Foreign Policy: A Revisionist Perspective
It is vital — indeed, it is literally a life-and-death matter — that Americans be able to look as coolly and clear-sightedly, as free from myth, at their government's record in foreign affairs as they increasingly are able to do in domestic politics.
