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Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty Adam Smith’s Emergent Rules of Justice (June 2023)

June 2023 marks the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth. Celebrations of this tercentenary abound, notably at our sister site, AdamSmithWorks. Most often known as the father or modern economics, OLL readers know that Smith's thought was much broader than just that. In fact, political economy as we know it did not quite exist yet in Smith's time; Smith was in fact a professor of Moral Philos...

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power The Gold Standard vs. Fiat Paper Money

Top: a 20 Mark Gold Coin - Deutsches Reich, Wilhelm II German Emperor and King of Prussia (1900) Bottom: a 10 Billion Mark German banknote (October 1923) As the Austrian economist Ludwig vo...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power William Fox on the hypocrisy of those who do not want to be dependent on foreign trade (1844)

The English M.P. and free trade orator William Johnson Fox (1786-1864) points out the hypocrisy of the protectionists who urge the nation to put “England First” by only buying things made there: