by Henry Oliner | Apr 25, 2011 | Economics, Politics
We have seen before how the separation of economic and political aims is an essential guarantee of individual freedom and how it is consequentially attacked by all collectivists. To this we must now add that the “substitution of political for economic power” now so...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 28, 2011 | Anti Semitism, Politics
This is a critical chapter in Hayek’s 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. The books is a deeply thoughtful examination of why planned economies lead to despotic rule. In several different parts of the book Hayek explains that the motivation to improve an economy by...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 17, 2011 | Economics, Politics
.. the desire to organize social life according to a unitary plan itself springs largely from a desire for power. .. in order to achieve their end, collectivists must create power of a magnitude never before known, and … their success will depend on the extent to...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 5, 2011 | Law
.. any policy aiming directly at a substantive ideal of distributive justice must lead to the destruction of the Rule of Law. To produce the same result for different people, it is necessary to treat them differently. To give different people the same objective...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 25, 2011 | Economics
That people should wish to be relieved of the bitter choice which hard facts often impose upon them is not surprising. But few want to be relieved through having the choice made for them by others. People just wish that the choice should not be necessary at all. And...
