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In March 2022, Adam Smith Works, a website of Liberty Fund, launched a new monthly feature called Just Sentiments. Collected here are the 22 essays that appeared during 2022-2023. Most…
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Daniel B Klein
Smithian Morals takes up Adam Smith's thought on justice, virtue, propriety, beneficialness, liberty, God, and the conscience. Smith is pursued as exemplar, sage, moral guide, and therapist. Smith teaches us…
In this intriguing collection of essays, Daniel B. Klein offers a fresh perspective on libertarianism and its place in today's society. From the role of government in the economy to…
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The present book treats Adam Smith and the liberalism he shared with David Hume and Edmund Burke. It explores notions jural, political, and economic, though other things as well. It…
Daniel B. Klein,Daniel B. Klein
The title of this book raises a provocative question that should make all economists think. What is our raison d'etre? Do economists have much influence on government policy, particularly over…
Daniel B. Klein
Economists tend to devote themselves to the technical frontiers of their discipline. But in political economy the important decisions are made, not by experts, but by ordinary public officials and…
This volume contains a selection of 15 items published in Econ Journal Watch (EJW). EJW publishes material on characters it finds admirable, including David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Erik…
Edmund Burke’s interpretation of the revolution in France, beginning 1789, is nothing short of an interpretation of human nature, and of Western civilization. Now the most penetrating and timeless passages…
Daniel B. Klein,Julie Malnig
Essays by nine leading 20th-century economists (Friedrich Hayek, Ronald Coase, Thomas Schelling, Gordon Tullock, Israel Kirzner, Frank Graham, William Hutt, Clarence Philbrook and D. McCloskey) are presented in this volume…
Daniel B. Klein (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, George Mason University)
Daniel Klein reexamines the elements of economic liberalism. He interprets Hayek’s notion of spontaneous order from the aestheticized perspective of a Smithian spectator and addresses issues economists have had surrounding…
Discusses the effects of technology advances on public policy and management of natural resources.
Econ Journal Watch maintains an ongoing series of studies on classical liberalism by country. The first articles appeared in 2015. A selection of chapters from that series are here republished…
Daniel B. Klein,Adrian T. Moore,Binyam Reja
The authors of this book say it’s time to rethink the fundamental structure of transit policy. The book focuses on street-based transit - buses, shuttles, and jitneys. The authors examine…
