December 2024 ISSUE

Article

Freedom in Hong Kong: The Sweet and the Sour

By Alvin Rabushka

Economic Freedom in Hong Kong The Fraser Institute's 2024 Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) report,1 its most recent edition, ranks Hong Kong as the world's freest economy in 2022. Since the first report in 1995, Hong Kong has invariably ranked first, with a ra...
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Book Review

Cost and Choice: Insights for Choosers

By Byron Carson

A Liberty Classic Book Review of Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory, by James M. Buchanan.1 In less than one hundred pages, James Buchanan excoriates economists—classical and modern—for their unrecognized confusions about cost. More than an in...
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Book Review

Seeking Truth versus Seeking Esteem

By Arnold Kling

So we have a way of telling which political activists actually care about society and which are merely trying to portray themselves as caring: The ones who actually care will exert significant effort to make sure that their beliefs are correct. —Michael Hue...
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Book Review

Democracy’s Opportunity Cost

By Janet Bufton

A Book Review of Democracy for Busy People, by Kevin J. Elliott.1 Kevin J. Elliott's 2023 book, Democracy for Busy People, is for anyone interested in liberal democratic politics. The book is worthwhile for classical liberals in particular because it handles topi...
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Richard Gunderman

Joy in Economics... and Tolstoy?

Article Sep 2 2024

T.S. Eliot on Economics and Education

Article Jul 1 2024

Misanthropy Springs from the Lust for Power: H.G. Wells

Article Apr 1 2024

John Locke: Physician, Philosopher, and Defender of Freedom

Article Dec 4 2023

Why Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better: A Swiftian Perspective

Article Jun 5 2023

Economics and the Art of Education

Article Dec 5 2022

The Division of Labor and the Diminution of Man

Article Oct 3 2022

Re-Imagining Medicine

Article Jul 4 2022

The Beef with Greed: Leo Tolstoy and Adam Smith

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