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Bastiat: The Unseen Radical
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Author: David M. Hart Jeff Deist
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Category: History of the Austrian School of Economics, Biographies
David Hart, editor and librarian at Liberty Fund, joined us in Auburn today to deliver a dynamite lecture on his favorite subject: Frédéric Bastiat the radical. We think we know Bastiat from The Law , but his work in economics and social theory actually spans thousands of pages. And he was a thoroughgoing radical in his personal and professional
Gustave de Molinari and the Anti-statist Liberal Tradition, Part 1
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: David M. Hart
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Category: Other Schools of Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory
Journal of Libertarian Studies, 5, no. 3 (1981)   The Intellectual Origins of Liberal Anti-statism 1. Edmund Burke, William Godwin and Benjamin Constant The origins of liberal anti-statism go back at least to the radical dissent of the Levellers in the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. Their efforts to defend themselves against the
Gustave de Molinari and The Anti-statist Liberal Tradition, Part 2
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: David M. Hart
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Category: Interventionism, Monopoly and Competition
Journal of Libertarian Studies 5, no. 4 (1981)   The Development of Molinari’s Anti-statism Therefore I claim that if a community gave notice, after a certain interval — a year for example, that it would cease the payment of judges, soldiers and gendarmes, at the end of the year this community would not have fewer courts and governments ready to
Gustave de Molinari and The Anti-statist Liberal Tradition, Part 3
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: David M. Hart
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Category: Interventionism, Monetary Theory, Political Theory
Journal of Libertarian Studies 6, no. 1 (1982)   The Influence of Molinari’s Ideas As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordi­nated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry . If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he
A Note on Experts Who Advise Governments
Power & Market
Author: David M. Hart
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“Unfortunately, no one listens to economists.” ~Gustave de Molinari(1852) I have written some short essays on the following topics. The idea is to dip into the past to see what I can find that is relevant to things that are going on today. Jeremy Bentham on rule by “disinterested experts” or “the fallacy of authority” (1824) Herbert Spencer on the