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[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty (1975), chapter 22, “Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Anne Hutchinson.” An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .]   Very shortly after the expulsion of Roger Williams , the Massachusetts Bay Colony was rent far more widely by another heresy with

[ Conceived in Liberty (1975). An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .]   Roger Williams arrived in England at the moment of Puritan victory and at the peak of the revolutionary intellectual ferment. The great libertarian Leveller movement was at the peak of its influence, and religious freedom had

[ Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)]   J.B. Say was made a member of the governing tribunate during the Napoleonic consulate regime in 1799. Four years later, his Traité was published, soon establishing him as the outstanding interpreter of Smithian thought on the continent of Europe. The Traité went through six

[ For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973)]   All right: Even if we concede that full private property in resources and the free market will conserve and create resources, and do it far better than government regulation, what of the problem of pollution? Wouldn’t we be suffering aggravated pollution from unchecked “capitalist greed”?

[ An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)] A particularly outstanding feature of J.B. Say’s treatise is that he was the first economist to think deeply about the proper methodology of his discipline, and to base his work, as far as he could, upon that methodology. From previous economists and from his own study, he

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), volume 2, chapter 1: “J.B. Say: the French tradition in Smithian clothing.”]   If Adam Smith purged economic thought of the very existence of the entrepreneur, J.B. Say, to his everlasting credit, brought him back. Not quite as far back to be sure as

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), volume 2, chapter 1, section 7: “Say’s Law of Markets.” An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] While J.B. Say has been almost totally ignored by mainstream economists and historians of economic

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), volume 2, chapter 9: “Roots of Marxism: Messianic Communism.” An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] “ but the Devil later originated selfishness and the institution of private property.” For

[ An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)] James Mill (1771–1836) was surely one of the most fascinating figures in the history of economic thought. And yet he is among the most neglected. Mill was perhaps one of the first persons in modern times who might be considered a true “cadre man,” someone who in the Leninist

[ An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)] Even the most hostile critics of the Ricardian system have granted that at least David Ricardo made one vital contribution to economic thought and to the case for freedom of trade: the law of comparative advantage. In emphasizing the great importance of the voluntary interplay of