2. Jeremy Bentham: The Utilitarian as Big Brother (continued)
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5. Monetary and Banking Thought, I: The Early Bullionist Controversy (continued)
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4. The Decline of the Ricardian System, 1820-48
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6. Monetary and Banking Thought, II: The Bullion Report and the Return to Gold (continued)
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4. The Decline of the Ricardian System, 1820-48 (continued 3)
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7. Monetary and Banking Thought, III: The Struggle Over the Currency School (continued 2)
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The Grandiose Failure of François du Noyer
If monopoly companies for specific products or specific areas of trade were good, reasoned François du Noyer, sieur de Saint-Martin, why not go one
The Brilliant but Confused Radicalism of George Orwell
One doesn't have to read far into the works of George Orwell to discover that he had no understanding of economics whatsoever and was not personally a libertarian in the sense we have in mind when we use that word today.
The Writing on the Wall
Decades before the socialists gained power, Eugen Richter saw the writing on the wall. The great tragedy of the 20th century is that the world had to learn about totalitarian socialism from bitter experience, instead of Richter's inspired novel. Many failed to see the truth until the Berlin Wall went up. By then, alas, it was too late.
The New State Cookshops
"All the portions served out are of the same size. One insatiable fellow today who asked for more was rightly served by being heartily laughed at. For what more deadly blow could be leveled at one of the fundamental principles of equality?"
