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Bookmark or Share- The Development of Free Trade in Europe - Hillsdale CollegeDu Pont and the other Physiocrats advocated the removal of restrictions on internal trade, the free movement of labor, the abolition of state sponsored monopolies and trading privileges, and the dismantling of the guild system, all of which advanced free trade and free market thought. Du Pont emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1799.
- 2014 Free Market Forum - Hillsdale College“The Principles of Free Market Economics: Experiences Teaching Online” Gary Wolfram, Hillsdale College. Presentation “Common Sense Economics for Life” James Gwartney, Florida State University John Kessler, IPFW. Media
- Capitalism and Christian Ethics - Hillsdale CollegeFor example, free market rules allow profits and losses to reflect the discipline of the marketplace. Open competition tends to break up concentrated economic power. When market power endures in the hands of firms, often its because those firms receive some form of governmental protection, for example tariffs, licenses, or subsidies.
- Is Capitalism Unfair? - Hillsdale CollegeIn my view the manna fallacy leads to confusion about how the world actually works and therefore wrong conclusions about fairness and justice as it relates to free market economic activity. This has led to wars, revolutions, and foolish policies even in thriving capitalist societies around the world over the last century.
- The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United StatesThe occasion was the Presidential election of 1896, in which the Democrats chose William Jennings Bryan, a prominent free silver advocate, to run against William McKinley. Earlier administrations had quieted the movement to revive free silver coinage by passing the Bland-Allison Act of 1878 and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.
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