The Lou Church Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Lou Church Foundation. Recorded at the Mises Institute on March 23, 2019. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno. The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this
It is broadly accepted that out of Enlightenment thinking came many of the “goods” of our society; goods economic, political, and social. Goods ranging from the material wealth and the technology we enjoy to classical liberalism and libertarianism. It is on the latter that I will focus. An exhaustive discussion of the connection of Enlightenment
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 22, no. 2 (Summer 2019) full issue. ABSTRACT: This Lou Church Memorial Lecture given at the AERC in March 2019 focuses on the outcomes of the Enlightenment: reason, the individual, equality, property rights, the separation of church and state, science and politics freed from religious dogma; but also the
Se acepta ampliamente que del pensamiento de la Ilustración surgieron muchos de los «bienes» de nuestra sociedad; Bienes económicos, políticos y sociales. Bienes que van desde la riqueza material y la tecnología que disfrutamos hasta el liberalismo clásico y el libertarismo. Es en este último en lo que me centraré. Una discusión exhaustiva sobre
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