Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Economic and Political Liberalism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
1. The Battle of Ideas: Economics and the Struggle for a Better World
2. Economics and Public Administration
3. Liberty vs. Power in Economic Policy in the 20th and 21st Centuries
4. What Happened to “Efficient Markets”?
5. Is State Intervention in the Economy Inevitable?
6. Why Does Government Overspend? Because It Has Too Much Power
7. The Role of the Economist in a Free Society
8. Don’t Be a “Jibbering Idiot”: Economic Principles and the Properly Trained Economist
9. Information and Knowledge: Austrian Economics in Search of Its Uniqueness
10. What Should Classical Liberal Political Economists Do?
11. Context, Continuity, and Truth: Theory, History, and Political Economy
12. Fearing Freedom: The Intellectual and Spiritual Challenge to Liberalism
13. Rebuilding the Liberal Project
14. The Reception of Free to Choose and the Problem of the Tacit Presuppositions of Political Economy
15. Competition, Discovery, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Case for International Liberalism in Our Time
16. Pessimistically Optimistic about the Future
Conclusion: Liberalism, Socialism, and Our Future
About the Author

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