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Online Library of Liberty The OLL is a curated collection of scholarly works that engage with vital questions of liberty.

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Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty John Locke on Commercial Society (September 2021)

Welcome to our September 2021 edition of Liberty Matters. This month Professor Bas Van der Vossen of Chapman University has written an essay on John Locke’s often underappreciated economic thought. Professor Van der Vossen notes that Locke’s impact on the political thought of liberal societies cannot be overstated, but this often means that few scholars look at Locke’s thoughts on labor, proper...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power Vera Smith on How the Civil War Changed the US Banking System

Vera Smith wrote her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of F.A. Hayek, at the London School of Economics, and that became the basis for her 1936 book on the rationale for central banking and the free banking alternative. Her work describes the historical and intellectual landmarks along the paths by which the banking systems of major economies (England, the USA, France, and Germany) e...

Best of the OLL BOLL 11: W.G. Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain” (1898)

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from a lecture given by William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain” (1898). He argues that in waging war against Spain and taking its colonies the US was morally defeated by Spain by behaving just like an old world imperial p...

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