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Rockford, Illinois and the free society (Friedman, Tullock, Coase)

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Milton Friedman (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1976) received an honorary doctorate from Rockford College and was our commencement speaker in 1969. Gordon Tullock (co-founder of Public Choice economics with James Buchanan, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1986) was a native of Rockford. And I was charmed to find this bookplate in the Rockford University library’s copy […]

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La escasez significa que la libertad es perro-come-perro. [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español]

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Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 11: La escasez significa

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Bertrand Russell’s pacifism in the face of Nazism

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Reprising this anecdote about philosopher Bertrand Russell’s opinion that the world would be better off with a Nazi victory. As reported by Richard Jencks, who was one of Russell’s students at UCLA in 1940: “The British philosopher Bertrand Russell, who had been jailed in World War I for his pacifism by a government of which

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Werner Sombart on heroes versus merchants

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Those of us in the democratic-republican West often find it impossible to understand how the world could go to war so often in the 20th century. We were raised in a culture that had internalized Locke, Jefferson, Mill, and others—for whom the goal of peace and respect for others’ rights to life, liberty, and property

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Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español

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My Liberalism: Pro and Con has been translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde. We will be serially publishing here each part prior to the publication of the book as a whole. Find the English version here: Amazon. From the blurb for the English edition: In this primer, we take up the best arguments for and

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La igualdad está amenazada por la libertad. [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español]

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El Liberalismo es injusto.[Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español]

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El Capitalismo Liberal no garantiza que las necesidades básicas de todos sean satisfagas. [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español]

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