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The French economist Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) was inspired by mankind’s never-ending struggle for liberty against their oppressors and concluded his book Les Soirées (1849) with this inspiring speech: Liberty! That was the cry of the captives of Egypt, the slaves of Spartacus, the …
This illustrated essay explores some images of "liberty" and "industry" from Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts) (1751-1772). They have been taken …
This is a compilation of all the quotations about Liberty and Power which we have used since the site was launched in March 2004. This edition contains 600 quotations which have appeared up to the end of December 2018 (making the PDF version some 1354 pages long). Each week a new Quotation from …
Matthew McCaffrey, assistant professor of enterprise at the University of Manchester, explores the economic and political work of the "forgotten giant" of economics, the Indiana-born Frank Fetter. At the height of his career in the early 20th century, Fetter was one of the most …