FREEDOM How to Understand and Apply the Concept

by George Reisman

This is an essay explaining the nature of individual freedom and its role as the foundation of personal safety, peace, and economic security. In exploding the perverted anarchic concept of freedom, the essay demonstrates why such actions as capriciously shouting “fire” in a crowded theater do not constitute an exercise of freedom but a violation of freedom, and that there are absolutely no justifiable restrictions of individual freedom. The essay traces all of the growing problems experienced by the United States today to its government's growing violations of the country's own magnificent founding principle of individual freedom.Among the topics discussed are the •The Meaning of Freedom•Freedom and Government•Freedom as the Foundation of Security•The Indivisibility of Economic and Political Freedom•The Rational Versus the Anarchic Concept of Freedom•The Decline of Freedom in the United States•The Growth of Corruption as the Result of the Decline of Freedom•A Free Speech and “Occupy Wall Street”This essay is essential reading for anyone who wants to defend individual freedom against the ever growing encroachments of the government and government-sanctioned hoodlums, above all those who are able to violate the freedom of speech under the banner of free speech, as though their trespass for the purpose of making noise were the equivalent of an invitation by a property owner to speak and disseminate ideas.

25 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 31, 2015

About the author

George Reisman, Ph.D., is Pepperdine University Professor Emeritus of Economics, and the author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, 1996; Kindle Edition, 2012), The Government Against the Economy; Warren Buffett, Class Warfare, and the Exploitation Theory; The Benevolent Nature of Capitalism and Other Essays; Labor Unions, Thugs, and Strom Troopers; and, most recently, Piketty's Capital: Wrong Theory/Destructive Program. His website is capitalism.net. His blog is georgereismansblog.blogspot.com. See his Amazon.com author's page and follow him on Twitter @GGReisman.

Dr. Reisman is married to Edith Packer, J.D., Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, with whom he lives in Laguna Hills, California.

He was personally a student of Ludwig von Mises, whose NYU seminar he attended for eight years and under whom he obtained his doctorate in economics in 1963. He is the translator of von Mises's Epistemological Problems of Economics (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1960). From1957 until her death in 1982, he was an associate of Ayn Rand.

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[Marek Dohojda · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Everything in today's society has been subverted by those who want power over others. Liberals arent liberal and freedom can not be to , it can only be from violence. Your rights do not subvert others' rights. What you believe is right doesn't mean rhat you are justified to use force to enforce it.
Alas politicians have done amazing jobs of changing word's to have new meanings, often contradicting what the words were.