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History: The Struggle for Liberty

Ralph Raico, professor of European history at Buffalo State College and Schlarbaum laureate, presents a series of ten formal lectures on the history of Liberty: its origin, its development, its friend... Read more

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2. Classical Liberalism

2. Classical Liberalism

Mises’ book, Liberalism, states that liberalism sufficed to change the face of the earth. The term liberal has since bee... Read more

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10. Classical Liberalism and the Welfare-Warfare State

10. Classical Liberalism and the Welfare-Warfare State

Germany surrendered conditionally in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles. Everybody opposed the treaty, but it was forci... Read more

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3. John Stuart Mill

3. John Stuart Mill

Mill played a crucial, but inflated, role in liberalism. Rothbard did not like Mill much. Mill was a disaster on economi... Read more

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4. Class and Conflict

4. Class and Conflict

Gustave de Molinari became the grand old man of classical liberalism, crediting Pareto. Molinari understood that the mai... Read more

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