The Three Ps of Liberty: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Polycentricity
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The Dialectics of Liberty: Exploring the Context of Human Freedom
About to be published. classical liberalismLibertarianismLibertypolitical economyPolitical philosophy
The Regulation of Language
Here’s a most interesting article that reemphasizes the functional beauty of the Anglophone tradition of common law and language. As Givati points out, English, be it “BBC standard” or Jamaican (and everything in between), is essentially of a distributed character. This is one of the reasons why English is so adaptable (science and business), so culturally rich,…
Adam Smith’s Libertarian Paternalism
Available gratis from The Oxford Handbook of Freedom. Adam SmithautonomyCass Sunsteinchoicefreedomimpartial spectatorJames OttesonLibertarianismLibertyRichard Thaler
Benjamin Constant
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Liberty and Equality in Political Economy From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present
Stephen Hicks reviews Nick and Gordon’s latest: an incentive for me to begin reading it given that all three are some of the best conference discussants I’ve come across. The Lockeans ask, “How can we raise everyone up?” while the Rousseaueans ask, “If we can’t raise all of the poor up, how can we lower…
Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
What with the regressive mind set of the so-called alt-left and the alt-right (the Siamese twins of authoritarianism and thuggery), discussion of the rule of law, free speech and liberality is more salient than ever. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: find out about our new series on #ClassicalLiberalism https://t.co/g8H5UWT33R @M_W_Q pic.twitter.com/FSRkq5afVQ — Palgrave Economics (@PalgraveEcon) September 7,…
John Stuart Mill
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Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture
I had the honour to meet the very excellent Paul Cantor recently. Check out his freely available book here. Austrian EconomicsEconomicsLibertyliterary criticismpaul cantorphilosophical literatureSpontaneous order
Some recent Oakeshottiana
Here’s a roundup of some recent Oakeshottiana: Rationalism and Traditionalism in Politics. The Correspondence Between Karl R. Popper and Michael Oakeshott — Spartaco Pupo in SCIENZA & POLITICA, vol. XXVIII, no. 54, anno 2016, pp. 121-14 Michael Oakeshott and Hayden White on the practical and the historical past — Jonas Ahlskog in Rethinking History: The Journal of…
