spontaneous order

| Full text of the topic | There is an understanding that all historical knowledge is relative, dependent on the point of view and destined to change over time. One of the main reasons for thinking about history in this way is the fact that it allows the names we use for different periods and complexes of …

The key ideas of libertarianism have been developing for many centuries. The first hints of them can be found in ancient China, Greece, and Israel; they began to develop into something resembling modern libertarian philosophy in the work of thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson...

Richard N. Lorenz, FEE When I tell someone that I work at the Foundation for Economic Education, I often get the question back: “What are the economic ideas that people need to understand?” At FEE, we’ve been thinking about this question a lot in our articles, coursework, seminars, and videos. We’re generally …

Jane Jacobs is a curious figure – one of the legendary civil rights activists in the United States, without a college degree, she sees herself as an economist, but with the greatest influence on urban planning. She was born in 1916 and became famous for her book “The Life and Death of Great American Cities”, which was published in …