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Cliches of Socialism Number 2

“If we had no Social Security, many people would go hungry.”

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Rules for Living: The Ethics of Social Cooperation by Henry Hazlitt
Published in 1999, this book is a shorter version of Hazlitt’s underappreciated Foundations of Morality. It contains a number of chapters from the book that are framed by an introduction by Leland Yeager. Hazlitt argues that our ethical and moral rules should be judged by the degree to which they forward social cooperation. He is [...]

Then Truth Will Out by Leonard E. Read
Then Truth Will Out is one of Leonard Read’s books discussing the freedom philosophy. Read discusses the morality and importance of a Capitalist system and how morality is ignored when the state increases its power.

Clichés of Socialism Number 36 by Leonard E. Read
“Business is entitled to a fair profit.”

Clichés of Socialism Number 46 by Leonard E. Read
“You do believe in majority rule, don’t you?”

Liberty: A Path to its Recovery by F.A. Harper
This 1949 book by Harper is a short and very readable overview of the concept of liberty, written at a time when liberty was under threat in all sorts of ways. He discusses three types of liberty: of thought, of personal relationships, and economic freedom. He also explores the relationship between rules and liberty as [...]

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