Sheldon Richman, editor of The Freeman spoke to students attending Freedom University I in Atlanta, GA on June 3.
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[...] for wanting the security the welfare state promises. That’s ridiculous. When I lecture about mutual aid, I make the opposite point: The wish to create islands of relative certainty in life’s sea of [...]
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[...] Richman’s FEE talk “Mutual Aid and the Welfare State.” This is a fascinating and informative lecture, to which the libertarian can subscribe [...]
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[...] in Britain under people like Lloyd-George, fully 95% of working people had cover for illness, health care and unemployment through friendly societies, the final nail in whose coffin was the supposedly universal welfare [...]
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[...] Government Doesn’t Work,” also free at Liberty Activism. A recent podcast about mutual aid from Sheldon Richman is also [...]
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[...] It's that time of year when lots of think tank type organisations are holding their summer schools. The Mises University is later this month, but the podcasts of the lectures from the Foundation for Economic Education's (FEE) "Freedom University" have just gone online, including the marvellous Sheldon Richman doing an update of his lecture on "Mutual Aid". [...]
19 July 2010 at 1:25 pm