It is incorrect to think of liberty as synonymous with unrestrained action. Liberty does not and cannot include any action, regardless of sponsorship, which lessens the liberty of a single human being. To argue contrarily is to claim that liberty can be composed of liberty negations, patently absurd. Unrestraint carried to the point of impairing the liberty of others is the exercise of license, not liberty. To minimize the exercise of license is to maximize the area of liberty. Ideally, government would restrain license, not indulge in it; make it difficult, not easy; disgraceful, not popular. A government that does otherwise is licentious, not liberal.
May 11, 2020 Businesses, Employees, and the Coronavirus Crisis
Throughout the long sordid history of socialism, socialists have decried the supposed conflict of interest between employers and employees. Employers exist just to exploit the workers, socialists claim. If it weren’t for government minimum-wage laws, employers would pay their employees no more than bare subsistence wages. Socialists have also long claimed that though their acquisition of profits, employers steal what rightfully belongs ...
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by Richard M. Ebeling
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The responses of public officials and the American public to the COVID-19 pandemic have been highly instructive. Here are just a few of the ...
Austrian Economics and Coronavirus Crisis
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Can Austrian Economics help extricate us from the coronavirus crisis? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and ...
