Liberty In One Lesson
From Lew Rockwell
At the Mises Circle meeting in Seattle last month attendees were given a book titled Inclined to Liberty, written by Louis Carabini and published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute (2008). This 106-page book has 34 chapters containing titles such as “The Astonishing Greatness of Inequality,” “The Hazard of Equalizing Consequences,” and “The Disastrous Lessons of Social Engineering.” Most of them are two to four pages long. The longest one, titled “The False Lure of Democracy,” is six pages.
This book explains the nature of liberty in a clear and concise fashion. It brings to mind Henry Hazlitt’s masterful 206-page Economics in One Lesson (1946; revised edition, 1979). Hazlitt’s lesson is this: “Economics is a science of tracing the effects of some proposed or existing policy not only on some special interest in the short run, but on the general interest in the long run.” The subtitle for the book in its revised 1979 paperback edition is The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics. The same could be said for Inclined to Liberty, with it being the shortest and surest way to understand liberty.
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