Dec 20, 2012

Restraints in Trade and Book Shops

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by Theodore Dalrymple / 3 Comments

Filed Under: bookselling, culture, ebooks, free trade, Theodore Dalrymple

To live in two countries is to make comparisons, instructive or not as the case may be. And since I spend an unusually large proportion of my time in bookshops, it is unsurprising that I compare the book trade in …

Jul 29, 2012

The Profoundly anti-Keynesian Political Economy of Wilhelm Röpke

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by Samuel Gregg / 0 Comments

Filed Under: free trade, Ordoliberalism, Political Economy, Rule of Law, Wilhelm Ropke

This edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Samuel Gregg, Research Director of the Acton Institution, on his latest book, Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy. Röpke’s name is not frequently mentioned in the parade of great free market …

May 4, 2012

Milton Friedman’s Work: Free Men and Free Markets

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by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Capitalism and Freedom, conscription, free trade, Index of Economic Freedom, monetary policy, occupational licensing, school vouchers

A Practice to Justify a Theory of Freedom: Friedman’s Engagement with a Collectivist World

Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom is a modern classic. Along with F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, Friedman’s 1962 book introduced many readers to classical liberal …