Liberty Matters

About this Collection

The OLL brings debate to life.

Our Liberty Matters feature is devoted to the discussion of ideas about liberty. We ask leading scholars and invited guest commenters for their thoughts on the ways in which OLL authors have defended individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace over the centuries.

Members:

• David M. Hart, “Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Class” (Nov. 2016) (David M. Hart)
• Liberty Matters: John Locke on Property (January, 2013) (Eric Mack)
• Liberty Matters: James Buchanan: An Assessment (March, 2013) (Geoffrey Brennan)
• Liberty Matters: Gustave de Molinari’s Legacy for Liberty (May, 2013) (Roderick T. Long)
• Liberty Matters: Bastiat and Political Economy (July, 2013) (Robert Leroux)
• Liberty Matters: Smith and The System of Liberty (September, 2013) (George H. Smith)
• Liberty Matters: Arthur Seldon and the IEA (November, 2013) (John Blundell)
• Liberty Matters: Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit at 101 (January, 2014) (Lawrence H. White)
• Liberty Matters: Hugo Grotius on War and the State (March 2014) (Fernando R. Tesón)
• Liberty Matters: Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics Revisited (May 2014) (Aurelian Craiutu)
• Liberty Matters: Deirdre McCloskey and Economists’ Ideas about Ideas (July, 2014) (Donald J. Boudreaux)
• Liberty Matters: James Mill on Liberty and 
Governance (Sept. 2014) (Sandra J. Peart)
• Liberty Matters: Herbert Spencer’s Sociology of the State (Nov. 2014) (George H. Smith)
• Liberty Matters: Richard Cobden: Ideas and Strategies in Organizing the Free-Trade Movement in Britain (Jan. 2015) (Stephen Davies)
• Liberty Matters: On the Spread of Classical Liberal Ideas (March, 2015) (David M. Hart)
• Liberty Matters: Assessing Böhm-Bawerk’s Contribution to Economics after a Hundred Years (April, 2015) (Richard Ebeling)
• Liberty Matters: Magna Carta after 800 Years: From liber homo to modern freedom (May, 2015) (Justin Champion)
• Liberty Matters: Reassessing the Political Economy of John Stuart Mill (July 2015) (Steven Kates)
• Liberty Matters: Anthony de Jasay and the Political Economy of the State (Sept. 2015) (Hartmut Kliemt)
• Liberty Matters: Montesquieu on Liberty and Sumptuary Law (Nov. 2015) (Henry C. Clark)
• Liberty Matters: The Significance of Lysander Spooner (Jan. 2016) (Randy E. Barnett)
• Liberty Matters: Ludwig von Mises and the Theory of Interventionism (March, 2016) (Sanford Ikeda)
• Liberty Matters: Rationalism, Pluralism, and the History of Liberal Ideas (May 2016) (Jacob T. Levy)
• Liberty Matters: Israel M. Kirzner and the Entrepreneurial Market Process (March 2017) (Peter J. Boettke)
• Liberty Matters: Germaine de Staël, Fanaticism, and the Spirit of Party (March 2019) (Aurelian Craiutu)