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Seventeenth-century French kings and their minions did not impose an accelerating burden of absolutism without provoking grave, deep, and continuing opposition. Indeed, there were repeated rebellions by groups of peasants and nobles in France from the 1630s to the 1670s. Generally, the focus of discontent and uprising was rising taxes, as well as

[First published in Liberty Magazine , 1990]   Christianity has played a central role in Western civilization and contributed an important influence on the development of classical-liberal thought. Not surprisingly, Christian beliefs about the “end times” are very important for us right now. Christian Reconstructionism is one of the fastest

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] The imposition of Colbert’s regime of statism, monopoly, and prohibitive tariffs, combined with Louis XIV’s high taxation

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .]   During the early 1670s, the devout Abbé Claude Fleury (1640–1723), a young theologian, moralist, and man of letters,

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .]   The Laissez-Faire Utilitarian: The Seigneur de Belesbat One of the influential antimercantilist and pro-laissez-faire

[Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] Dominant in English political thought from the early 16th to the early 17th century was a form of simplistic and militant absolutist

[From Liberty , November 1988.] Prof. Hans Hoppe, a fairly recent immigrant from West Germany, has brought an enormous gift to the American libertarian movement. In a dazzling breakthrough for political philosophy in general and for libertarianism in particular, he has managed to transcend the famous is/ought, fact/value dichotomy that has plagued

[Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577) The honor — if that be the proper term — of being the first English mercantilist writer should have gone, for

[Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] It used to be held that the famous “antimonopoly” common-law decisions of Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634), the eminent early

[Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] The “Bullionist” Attack on Foreign Exchange and on the East India Trade Having survived the assaults of ignorant moralists before the