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Empire State of Mind : The Illiberal Foundations of Liberal Hegemony

Coyne, Christopher J. - 2016

This paper explores the interventionist mindset required for success under the U.S. government's foreign policy strategy of liberal hegemony. This approach to foreign policy contains an inherent tension. Its adherents claim a commitment to liberal values but successfully implementing the...

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Capital, Ideology, and the Liberal Order

Cowen, Nick; Geloso, Vincent - 2021

Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology (2020) offers a powerful critique of ideological justifications for inequality in capitalist societies. Does this mean we should reject capitalist institutions altogether? This paper defends some aspects of capitalism by explaining the epistemic function...

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Richard Epstein's Classical Liberal Constitution : What Might Benjamin Franklin Have Thought?

Wagner, Richard E. - 2014

This essay accepts the normative vision Richard Epstein sets forth in The Classical Liberal Constitution, but refracts that vision through some considerations of positive political economy. In response to a questioner who asked at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention what kind of...

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Knowledge and Coordination : A Liberal Interpretation

Klein, Daniel B. - 2012

This text was the basis for a presentation of the book Knowledge and Coordination: A Liberal Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2012). The lecture discusses the richness of knowledge, the distinction between concatenate and mutual coordination, and the relation of these to a liberal...

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Christianity → Liberalism : Siedentop Reading Group Notes

Klein, Daniel B. - 2020

Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. The document contains a link to the set of videos online …

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In Defense of Liberal Peace

Murphy, Jon - 2020

In a recent edition of Economic Affairs, Edwin van de Haar provides evidence against the thesis that trade fosters peace. However, I argue his description of the “trade-fosters-peace” thesis as insufficiently precise is incorrect. By its nature, we must use probabilistic language....

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Conservative Liberalism : Hume, Smith, and Burke as Policy Liberals and Polity Conservatives

Klein, Daniel B. - 2020

liberalism. I deal disproportionately with Burke, to tussle with two sets of imagined interlocutors, one on Burke as liberal, and …

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Interstate Federalism : Challenges From the History of Classical Liberalism

Owens, Matthew; Coyne, Christopher J. - 2023

This chapters surveys the main ideas and tensions in the classical liberal treatment of defense, international relations, and war-making. This sets the stage for a discussion of the feasibility of interstate federalism by identifying key issues and challenges that such a system will need to...

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Early Spanish Liberalism and Constitutional Political Economy : The Cádiz Constitution of 1812

Congleton, Roger D. - 2010

The history of Spain is not usually associated with liberalism or constitutional innovation by most English or American … historians. This paper provides a brief history of the rise of liberalism in Spain and uses the Constitution of 1812 as a window … into the political liberalism of Spain in the early nineteenth century. That constitution makes it clear that the …

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