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Ludwig von Mises notes that western Europe developed economically first because it was able to check the wealth destroying “spirit of predatory militarism” first (1949) The eminence of the Western nations consisted in the fact that they succeeded better in checking the spirit of predatory …
Honoré Daumier, "The Army Hierarchy" (1850s) [See higher resolution image ] What are Ngrams? According to the Wikipedia article on The Google Ngram Viewer : The Google Ngram Viewer or Google Books Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts frequencies of any set of …
In this Liberty Matters online discussion Peter Boettke of George Mason University examines Israel Kirzner’s insights into the rivalrous nature of competitive behavior and the market process, his analysis of market theory and the operation of the price system, the institutional environment that …
Nicolas Buccola, a professor of political Science at Linfield College, discusses the moral problem Frederick Douglass raised in the 1850s about the justice of using violence to resist the evil of slavery. Douglass was radicalized both by his own experience of being a slave and using violence …