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Sep 24, 2024 | 
econlib.org | Kevin Corcoran |John Stuart Mill |Scott Sumner |David Henderson
Early in her political career, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a particularly noteworthy comment. During an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, she was questioned about a claim she made about Pentagon spending that was rated “Four Pinocchios” by the fact-checkers at the Washington post. While she acknowledge her error, she also has this to say:
If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, I would argue that they’re missing the forest for the trees.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Daniel C. Dennett |John Stuart Mill |Jean-Jacques Rousseau |Simone de Beauvoir
I've Been Thinking Philosopher Daniel Dennett describes himself as a pack rat or a magpie - picking up ideas and facts that might be useful from a wide range of sources. His memoir reflects that. He has made connections with researchers in many fields, particularly evolutionary theory, neuroscience and computing and his distinctive philosophical career reflects that.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
econlib.org | Paul Forrester |John Stuart Mill |Adam Smith |David Ricardo
A Liberty Classics Book Review of Progress and Poverty, by Henry George. Henry George’s Progress and Poverty (1879) was among the most important and widely read books published in the 19th century, but George’s work and the single tax movement it spawned had largely faded common knowledge by the 1930s.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
adamsmithworks.org | Milton Friedman |John Maynard Keynes |John Stuart Mill |Adam Smith
AdamSmithWorks readers will be happy to know that Adam Smith made the short list of contenders for the designation of the Greatest Economist of All Time (GOAT) by the influential economist Tyler Cowen. In his book GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does it Matter? (free online at econgoat.ai), Cowen attempts to identify the GOAT of economic thought.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
theprint.in | Daisy Sharma |John Stuart Mill
Irony is that opposition in the name of opposing the government has forgotten, ignored and left behind this age old lesson to accept the humility with great admiration.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
oll.libertyfund.org | John Stuart Mill
The Best of the OLL No. 5: John Stuart Mill, “Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual” (1859) By: John Stuart Mill Mar 12, 2013 This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from John Stuart Mill’s book *On Liberty* where in Chapter 4 he describes the strict limits which must be imposed on the power society has over individuals.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
oll.libertyfund.org | John Stuart Mill
The Best of the OLL No. 67: John Stuart Mill "The Difficulties of Socialism" (1879) By: John Stuart Mill Feb 13, 2015 This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. A thematic list with links to HTML versions of the texts is available [here](/pages/best-of-the-oll).
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
oll.libertyfund.org | John Stuart Mill
This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This extract includes the first and fifth parts of a long essay which appeared in The Examiner between January and May 1831. Mill believed that English society had entered an “age of transition” in which the ideas and the ruling elites of the old society were no longer able to provide the direction the country needed.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
oll.libertyfund.org | John Stuart Mill
The Best of the OLL No. 62: John Stuart Mill, “On Representative Government” (1861) By: John Stuart Mill May 22, 2014 This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from Mill's book on *Considerations of Representative Government" where he argues that representative government is the best form of government there is.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
oll.libertyfund.org | John Stuart Mill
This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. Mill’s classic statement of the utilitarian position appeared in 1861 in a series of articles in Fraser’s Magazine between October and December 1861. It then was published as a book in 1863.
