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Beyond Authenticity: ISIS and the Islamic Legal Tradition Le Corbusier’s Visions for Fascist Addis Ababa What can the Left learn from Friedrich Hayek? Assassins of the Mind How Argentina ‘Suicides’ the...
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Human Nature, War and Armed Conflict
The list of ongoing armed conflicts in the worlds is long (see, for example, here) and has been long for centuries. There are many websites and research institutes that keep track of their number, the...
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Slowly debunking the trade leads to peace fallacy
In 2010 I wrote that economic issues are just another factor in decisions on war or peace. There is nothing to suggest that free trade leads to peace per se (The Liberal Divide over Trade, Peace, and...
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Epistemological modesty and unintended consequences
What has attracted me most to libertarianism – next to the Non-Aggression Principle – is its attitude towards our knowledge which can be described as epistemologically modest. Epistemology is a branch...
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The Fog of Foreign Policy
“The Fog of Foreign Policy: Why only ‘least bad’ options are available in Syria, Iraq and other global hotspots” Sound libertarian analysis, highly recommended!Filed under: Links Tagged: Benjamin...
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David Friedman on Judging Outside Your Expertise
David Friedman writes: Accepting the views of experts on a question you are not competent to answer for yourself, assuming that you can figure out who they are and what they believe, is often a...
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Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, VIII. Germany’s post WWII...
World War Two was largely won by the United States and the British Empire in alliance with the USSR. The idea of Britain’s place in the world being defined by its relationship with the US, a...
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Is the European Union Collapsing?
Lately, the European Union (EU) stumbles from crisis to crisis. After a long hot spring dominated by the financial crisis in Greece, we now see the collapse of the system based on the Schengen Treaty,...
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European Union: Creative Destruction Wave?
Some thoughts in reply to Edwin’s recent very interesting piece on the European Union. The Greek crisis, the refugees crisis and the recently announced German suspension of the Schengen agreement on...
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Hayek’s Choice In Currency: A Way To Stop Inflation
I have just finished reading Friedrich Hayek’s short essay entitled ‘Choice in Currency’ (1976). I believe that this essay is highly relevant in our current time as we have become witnesses of the...
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Notes On Liberty ART
Cheerted Keo, who is a friend of mine and an aspiring Cambodian artist by way of Holland, is in the process of creating a banner or logo for our “Notes On Liberty” website. Inspired by the subtitle...
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Another unintentional argument for Hayek’s spontaneous order
The institutionalization of the Standestaat did not proceed smoothly. It was the result of almost continuous internal and interstate conflicts. Its ultimate beneficial results in strengthening the...
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A Hayekian View of Safe Spaces
The concept of a “safe space” has dominated the discourse in identity politics for the last several years. Proponents of safe space, mostly left-leaning millennials are now demanding that colleges,...
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Friedrich Hayek’s recollection of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Today is F.A. Hayek’s birthday, and if he would have been alive he would have been 117 years old now. Hayek is one of the most seminal economists and social philosophers of the 20th century. His works...
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Libertarians and Pragmatists on Democracy Part 2: Classical Liberal and...
Note: This is part of a series on democracy. It is assumed the reader is familiar with part one prior to reading, in which the basic direction of this series is introduced and democracy is more...
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Libertarians and Pragmatists on Democracy Part 3: Pragmatists on Democracy as...
Note: This is part of a series on democracy. It is assumed the reader is familiar with part one, defining democracy, and part two, summarizing classical liberal perspectives on democracy. In this...
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Libertarians and Pragmatists on Democracy Part 4: Why Market Anarchism is...
Note: This is the final part of a series on democracy. It is assumed the reader is familiar with part one, defining democracy, part two, summarizing classical liberal perspectives on democracy, and...
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Where did Homo Economicus come from?
Over on my Facebook page, I posted a short criticism of both neoclassical and behavioral economic scholarship on rational choice (drawing from a paper I’m working on exploring that topic). Stated a bit...
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The Case for the UK staying in the EU
Leaving the European Union would not be a gain for liberty in the United Kingdom. This is true as a matter of general principles and is reinforced by the nature of the Leave campaign which has targeted...
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Classical Liberalism, Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism
In another thought-provoking post on Facebook (does the guy ever write mediocre stuff, I wonder?) Barry raised the question of the relation between classical liberalism, nationalism and...
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