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In Defense of Dwelling in Great Minds: A Few Quotations from Michael Polanyi’s The Study of Man

Klein, Daniel B. - Ratioinstitutet - 2009

It seems like a small and perhaps shrinking minority of economists know reverence of individual figures. Most economists seem to be without heroes, and sometimes disparage reverence as cultish idolatry. Here I collect from Michael Polanyi’s The Study of Man (1959) a few passages that...

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Taxation and Domestic Free Trade

Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...

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Aristotelism, handel och det liberala systemet

Den Uyl, Douglas; Rasmussen, Douglas - Ratioinstitutet - 2005

Uppsatsen tar sin utgångspunkt i Aristoteles tankar om handel och vänskap och klargör bl.a. hur privat äganderätt, genom att den ger upphov till ”en sfär av frihet där självstyrda verksamheter går att utövas utan att förtrampas av andra”, är en nödvändig förutsättning för...

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Conservative Magazines and the Presumption of Liberty: A Content Analysis on Sex, Gambling, and Drugs

Klein, Daniel; Briggeman, Jason - Ratioinstitutet - 2009

Conservatives say they are for small government and individual liberty, but a content analysis of leading conservative … magazines shows that most have preponderantly failed to take pro-liberty positions on sex, gambling, and drugs. Besides many … anti-liberty commissions, the magazines may be criticized for anti-liberty omission—that is, failing to oppose anti-liberty …

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The People’s Romance: Why People Love Government (as much as they do)

Klein, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

Using Schelling’s analysis of mutual coordination and focal points, I interpret Smithian sympathy as sentiment coordination. When the yearning for sentiment coordination seeks, further, for it to encompass the whole social group and looks naturally to government for the focal points, we have...

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Mere Libertarianism: Blending Hayek and Rothbard

Klein, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

desirable always concords with liberty (or maximal liberty). Rothbard achieved this concordance by molding his sensibilities … about the desirable to fit his definition of liberty. Hayek achieved this concordance by molding his definition of liberty … ought to reject the precept of concordance: the desirable does not always concord with liberty. I attempt a blending of …

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Choosing One’s Own Informal Institutions: On Hayek’s Critique of Keynes’s Immoralism

Berggren, Niclas - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

In the main, Hayek favored rules that apply equally to all and located such rules in tradition, beyond conscious construction. This led Hayek to attack Keynes’s immoralism, i.e. the position that one should be free to choose how to lead one’s life irrespective of the informal institutions in...

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Securing Constitutional Government: The Perpetual Challenge

Ratnapala, Suri - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

Constitutional government is an ideal and like all ideals can only be achieved as an approximation. Even those countries that appear to be near the ideal are revealed on examination to be not so near. Constitutional government, to the extent it is achieved reflects a state of affairs. It remains...

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Konkursinstitutet som finansiell institution

Gratzer, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2002

Ett fungerande näringsliv förutsätter ett fungerande konkursinstitut. På en fungerande marknad kan vi vänta oss att ineffektiva företag slås ut genom t.ex. innovativ nyetableringskonkurrens och att de effektiva företagen överlever. En vanlig uppfattning är att konkursinstitutet är ett...

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