Saint Augustine There is an ancient saying, attributed to Aesop: “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to ...

Larry Reed revisits “I, Pencil” with reflections on the global market. Economist and historian Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed is president emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global ...

Saul Zimet is a Website and Data Coordinator for Human Progress .org at the Cato Institute and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New ...

The socialist calculation debate revolves around the question of whether central planners can, at least in principle, make the economic calculations necessary to achieve the rational, efficient ...

Vincent Geloso is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics. He is the author of Du Grand Rattrapage au ...

Frédéric Bastiat’s The Law is one of the most incisive attacks on socialists and protectionists. Bastiat was one of France’s most passionate classical liberals. Paul Meany is the editor for ...

Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project of the Cato Institute. Most of his work focuses on examining thinkers who predate classical liberalism but ...

Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project of the Cato Institute. Most of his work focuses on examining thinkers who predate classical liberalism but ...

It is no exaggeration to say that Mill and Harriet were fully- fledged intellectual partners. John Stuart Mill is easily one of the most influential philosophers in the 19th- century, if not history.

War is the quintessential undertaking of the state, especially the modern centralized nation- state of the past five or six centuries. Indeed, the relationship between the two is encapsulated in the ...

The term pursuit of happiness, which occurs in the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence, has attracted the attention of countless scholars over the past two centuries. The phrase differs ...

Thomas Paine was one of the first people to argue in favor of what we now refer to as universal basic income. Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project ...