Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 The Philosophy of Liberalism There are two very different kinds of reason or argument that can be given for liberty. One is based on its utility, that liberty has good consequences for …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 We pointed out in the last lecture that although the earlier arguments for the free society were made on moral or philosophical grounds, once the science of economics developed sufficiently the role …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 In the second half of the twentieth century it seems fair to say that the baton of the free society, and also of Austrian economics, passed from Mises to Hayek. Mises had …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 If Ludwig von Mises provided the most powerful economic formulation of classical liberalism, arguing that economic progress demands a free society and especially free markets, and Friedrich Hayek secured for this message …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 The three authors we have examined so far in this course (Mises, Hayek and Friedman) were all economists and their arguments for the free society were based ultimately on considerations related to …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 Murray Rothbard has the distinction of having pushed classical liberalism to its radical extreme. In his hands the doctrine of the free society became a doctrine of complete privatization, in which every …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 As I have pointed out in previous lectures, since the beginning of the twentieth century the main arguments for the free society with free markets have been made by economists. A …(Read More)