This is a collection of essays published by the National Anti-Corn Law League. It consists of three prize winning essays on the Corn Laws and a collection of other Anti-Corn Law League propaganda. It was issued as a presentation copy with a beautifully embossed cover and was designed to be inscribed and given away in order to spread the League’s view on free trade.
Cobden reflects on how the Crimean War can best be ended without humiliating Russia and helping her be integrated into the world market again.
Another early work on foreign policy and trade by Richard Cobden written under the pseudonym of “A Manchester Manufacturer.”
An early piece by Cobden on foreign policy and free trade written under the pseudonym of “A Manchester Manufacturer.”
A cheap mass produced pamphlet of Cobden’s speech distributed by the Anti-Corn Law League.
501 Quotations about Liberty and Power: The Collected Quotations from the Online Library of Liberty (2004-2014) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2015).
This is a compilation of all the quotations about Liberty and Power which we have used since the site was launched in March 2004. This edition contains 501 quotations which have appeared between March 2004 and December 29, 2014. Each week a new Quotation from one of the books in the OLL collection is added. The quotations are categorized by theme and provide a useful survey of the history of classical liberal thought over the past 500 years. See the front page of this site for the latest quote of the week.
Liberty Matters: Herbert Spencer’s Sociology of the State (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).
The English sociologist and individualist political philosopher Herbert Spencer has been either completely neglected or badly misinterpreted by scholars for over one hundred years. In this discussion George Smith explores an important aspect of Spencer's thinking, namely his "sociology of the state". Although Smith considers Spencer to be "one of the most fascinating and complex figures in the history of classical liberalism" he is concerned that there is a tension in his thought between Spencer the radical individualist moral and political philosopher and Spencer "the sociologist." In other words, perhaps we have "Das Herbert Spencer Problem" which needs to be resolved. On the one hand, Spencer believes in "absolute ethics" in his political and moral theory (that violence and coercion is morally wrong), and yet on the other hand seems to give the state a free pass ("relative ethics") when it comes to the emergence of the state and the role war and violence played in this process. He is joined in this discussion by David M. Levy, Professor of Economics at George Mason University; Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University; and Alberto Mingardi, the founder and General Director of the Istituto Bruno Leoni. See the Archive of "Liberty Matters".
This online discussion is part of the series “Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Matters pertaining to Liberty.” The English sociologist and individualist political philosopher Herbert Spencer has been either completely neglected or badly misinterpreted by scholars for over one hundred years. In this discussion George Smith explores an important aspect of Spencer’s thinking, namely his “sociology of the state”. He is joined in this discussion by David M. Levy, Professor of Economics at George Mason University; Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University; and Alberto Mingardi, the founder and General Director of the Istituto Bruno Leoni.
