March, 2007

Liberty May Make Us Wealthy, but Liberty Is Not Wealth

by Tom G. Palmer

March 29th, 2007

I’ll start where my colleagues have ended, and congratulate Brian for his accomplishment in writing such a fine work and encourage everyone to go out and buy a copy. I’ve expressed my reservations about the book, but they’re quite minor. Radicals for Capitalism is a serious accomplishment and a genuinely good book.
I [...]

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Virginia Postrel: Recorded Live!

by The Editors

March 29th, 2007

Virginia Postrel takes the Cato Unbound conversation to an audio device near you with a chat about “The Cultural Tradition of Libertarianism” [.mp3] in today’s Cato Daily Podcast.

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Post-Apocalyptic Libertarianism

by Brink Lindsey

March 29th, 2007

Much of the current confusion about libertarianism’s future, and many of the deepest conflicts within libertarian circles today, can be chalked up to this fact: the world didn’t come to an end.
As Brian’s wonderful book makes vividly clear, the modern libertarian movement emerged as a prophecy of doom. Libertarians held vital knowledge about [...]

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What Was Wrong With Socialism?

by Virginia Postrel

March 28th, 2007

Reflecting on our exchanges, I’m struck by the lingering division over what was wrong with socialism, and with socialists. Libertarians agree that socialism was wrong. We disagree on exactly why. So in part what we’ve been calling a division between the empiricist and deductivist strands of libertarianism also reflects different diagnoses of the nature of [...]

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