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Showing posts with label classical liberalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classical liberalism. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Luke Savage — Liberalism in Theory and Practice

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Contemporary liberals are temperamentally conservative — and what they want to conserve is a morally bankrupt political order.,,, A charac...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

David Gordon — Liberalism and "Classical Liberalism" — An Unfortunate Evolution

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Backgrounder in the history of the development of liberalism. While it written from a Libertarian point of view, it is useful in understan...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Eric Falkenstein — The History of Individual Property Rights

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Short summary. Worth read. Eric Falkenstein is a financial economist rather than a historian but he has done his research on this. Falken...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

Matt McManus — Liberalism, Classical and Egalitarian

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Conservatives are about conserving and that means orienting toward tradition, that is, the past.  Classical liberalism was a product ...
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Monday, August 21, 2017

Roberta A. Modugno — The Levellers: The First Libertarians

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Some interesting history. The Levellers were one of the inspirations for classical liberalism and laissez-faire. Libertarianism is a co...
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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Trevor Louis — Classical Liberalism: How Small Government Can Regain Its Voice

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The principles and values of classical liberalism are enshrined in American culture because they are what the nation was founded upon, unli...
Friday, August 19, 2016

John Quiggin on John Locke's Classical Liberalism

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Weekend reading on liberalism. These are short posts and they provide a good background in many political issues now to the fore in US poli...
Sunday, August 14, 2016

John Quiggin — Locke’s Folly

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Jeffersonian Democrats made a serious attempt to implement Locke’s theories. Colonization and expropriation followed . John Locke was an E...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

Anthony Gottlieb — The tolerant philosopher: why Pierre Bayle is the forgotten figure of the Enlightenment

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If you are into the history of liberalism and the Enlightenment. New Statesman The tolerant philosopher: why Pierre Bayle is the forgotten...
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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Miles Kimball — The Complexity of Liberty: How Equality Enters into a Good Definition of Liberty

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Having blogged through to the end of On Liberty, I know that what John Stuart Mill claims in the 9th paragraph of the “Introductory” to On ...
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Monday, March 21, 2016

Jag Bhalla — Stop Associating Adam Smith with Laissez-Faire Economics

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Some keeper Smith quotes. Evonomics Stop Associating Adam Smith with Laissez-Faire Economics Jag Bhalla
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Friday, October 23, 2015

Brad DeLong — Must-Read: Marshall I. Steinbaum and Bernard A. Weisberger: Economics was Once Radical: Then It Decided Not to Be

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Related factoid. Until 1886 [John Bates] Clark was a Christian socialist reflecting the view of his German teachers that competition is...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

John Quiggin — John Locke’s Road to Serfdom

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John Locke advocated for a world based on expropriation, enslavement, and serfdom. Jacobin John Locke’s Road to Serfdom John Quiggin
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Alberto Mingardi — Herbert Spencer, the misunderstood libertarian

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Why Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), you may ask. Spencer was an intellectual giant towering over his age along with several other intellectua...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Matias Vernengo — Beyond Laissez-faire? Seriously?

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The world is still operating within the laissez-faire framework of classical liberalism, that is, in contextual terms of the 18th and 19th...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Patrick L. Smith — Neoliberalism is our Frankenstein: Greece and Ukraine are the hot spots of a new war for supremacy

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We should be considering the Greece and Ukraine crises together. If only the news media would allow that… There is something tragically i...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Michael Lind — Libertarians hijacked the right: How free-market zealots doomed American conservatism

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Instead of denouncing the Koch brothers, the Club for Growth, Paul Ryan and other free-market zealots on the right, American progressives s...
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Friday, August 22, 2014

Peter Radford — Is Economic Orthodoxy Anti-Democracy?

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Yes it is. The explanation is found in the genesis of classical economics and then in its idealization of the marketplace. "It'...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Matt Bruenig — Capitalism Whack-A-Mole

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There is no general framework of morality or justice that supports laissez-faire capitalism. This is a problem of course for those who wish...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Brad DeLong — Karl Polanyi, Classical Liberalism, and the Varieties of "Neoliberalism"

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Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation is certainly the right place to start in thinking about "neoliberalism" and its glob...
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