The Life & Writings Bundle

“>”>The thoughts and lives of men who made history. Reading the works of great thinkers in conjunction with the stories of their lives helps to build a fuller picture of the origins of their work, to emphasize the connections and disjunctions between their works and their lives, and to round out our images of the […]

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The Morals of Markets

How markets foster moral excellence. The morality of commerce has long bothered man’s conscience—but H.B. Acton asserts that a free market is a necessary condition for the pursuit of moral excellence. Though Marxism, in practice, essentially collapsed in most of the world with the Soviet Union, those concerns about the market still creep up when […]

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Exploring the roots of virtue. Adam Smith believed that society is not bound together merely by mutually agreed upon neutral rules — instead, there are a number of institutions and sentiments which serve as the thread holding together the fabric of civilization. In Smith’s first published work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which he also […]

Cost & Choice

The individualized nature of opportunity cost. James Buchanan argued that opportunity cost is subject to the perspective of the individual rather than a universally agreed upon value. Buchanan’s groundbreaking work in Cost and Choice explores opportunity cost theory in a revolutionary way. Though the Austrian School of economists enunciated similar views of cost decades before […]

The Fable of the Bees

Private interests weave together to form the fabric of society. The Fable of the Bees explores how private vices lead to public benefits. Bernard Mandeville saw that, much like a bee hive, orderly social structures like markets and law were developed out of individual action. Buy Now Use promo code BEE50 for 50% off. In-Depth […]