The Libertarian Angle: Ebeling’s Favorite Authors: Friedrich von Hayek by Future of Freedom Foundation October 10, 2018 Richard Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He became a libertarian while still in high school and has been involved in the libertarian movement for many decades. Who did he look up to? What books have influenced him the most? Richard and FFF president Jacob Hornberger discuss. Go to the podcast.
The Libertarian Angle: Ebeling’s Favorite Authors: Friedrich von Hayek (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation October 10, 2018 Richard Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He became a libertarian while still in high school and has been involved in the libertarian movement for many decades. Who did he look up to? What books have influenced him the most? Richard and FFF president Jacob Hornberger discuss. Go to the podcast.
Why Kavanaugh Matters to Libertarians by Jacob G. Hornberger October 10, 2018 I get why conservatives are ecstatic that the U.S. Senate has confirmed President Trump’s nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, to the Supreme Court. Conservatives prevailed in getting one of their own onto the Court. For a Republican or conservative statist, that’s obviously cause for celebration. For me, not at all. I couldn’t care less whether a conservative statist gets appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court or a liberal statist. As a libertarian, it’s all the same to me. You see, conservatives and liberals play this game in which they pretend that they’re different from one another. They have these great big, knock-down, drag-out fights acting like there are some sort of giant philosophical differences between the two of them. They are only fooling themselves. There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between a liberal and conservative, a Democrat or a Republican. They are all cut out of the same ideological and philosophical cloth. They ...
Quinn Slobodian and the Academic Attack on Mises and Hayek by Richard M. Ebeling October 8, 2018 We are living in a world of the anti-liberal counter-attack against individual liberty, free markets and limited government. Prominent voices for the free society in the 20th century, like the Austrian economists, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. Hayek, are among the targets that opponents of free market liberalism are taking aim. In doing so, the anti-liberals distort the facts ...
A Real Agenda for a Renewal of Free Market Liberalism by Richard M. Ebeling September 20, 2018 To mark its 175th birthday, the highly regarded and widely read British news magazine The Economist published a “manifesto” in its September 15, 2018, issue outlining its agenda for a renewed and relevant political and economic liberalism for the 21st century. But can it restore the liberal ideal at a time when liberalism is under attack from so many ...
Macro Aggregates Hide the Real Market Processes at Work by Richard M. Ebeling September 13, 2018 For the 12 months that ended in July 2018, price inflation in the United States, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, was 2.9 percent. That is, a basket of goods that cost $100 in July 2017 increased in expense by almost $3 by July 2018. But is this sort of index really all that needs to be emphasized ...
Interest Rates Need to Tell the Truth by Richard M. Ebeling August 30, 2018 In the middle of July 2018, President Donald Trump said in an interview that he was “not happy” with the Federal Reserve nudging up interest rates and threatening economic growth in the United States. At the recent Jackson Hole, Wyoming, meeting of global central bank leaders, the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome (“Jay”) Powell, said the Fed board would continue ...
The Walter Lippmann Colloquium and the Meaning of Liberalism by Richard M. Ebeling August 15, 2018 The world has always been an uncertain place, and this is no less true today. After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown its superiority to government planning. This is no longer the case, with the rise of populism, a rebirth of nationalism, and a reawakened ...
The Dangers of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present by Richard M. Ebeling August 2, 2018 Liberty is a delicate idea and institution. While people say they want freedom, fight under the banner of freedom, and even sometimes die for its preservation and advancement, determining what it actually means to be free and to live in a free society seems often elusive and controversial. What it means for a society to be free is, perhaps, easier ...
Trump Proves Mises and Hayek Right by Jacob G. Hornberger July 25, 2018 Ludwig von Mises showed how one government intervention inevitably leads to more interventions. That’s because the original intervention produces a crisis. At that point public officials have a choice: Repeal the intervention or enact a new intervention to address the crisis. The likelihood that they will adopt the former is nil because that would entail admitting they were wrong. ...
Some Confusions of Language in Economic Thought by Richard M. Ebeling July 24, 2018 Fifty years ago, in 1968, Austrian (and Austrian school) economist Friedrich A. Hayek published a monograph called The Confusion of Language in Political Thought. Hayek argued that the words we use and the meanings we give to them greatly influence how we think about the political system and the wider social order in which we live. ...
Socialism, Like Dracula, Rises Again From the Grave by Richard M. Ebeling July 17, 2018 Many of us grew up watching movies about Dracula — Nosferatu, the Undead. Fearful of the sunlight that could burn him into cinders, Dracula lived in a coffin filled with his native Transylvanian soil by day, only to come out at night to live off the life-giving blood of the living. But to continue his unnatural existence, this human-like ...
