The historical background to the United States Constitution, the text of the Constitution itself, and the struggle over its ratification are discussed in detail.
This course continues the introduction of Adam Smith’s investigations of the natural laws of exchange in light of the “marginal revolution” of the 1870s.
This lesson in the Cato Home Study Course introduces The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith’s inquiry into the beneficial consequences of voluntary exchange.
This lesson reveals the way the American experiment in liberty and limited government rose out of the intersection of libertarian moral and political philosophy.
The basic ideas of individual rights, spontaneous order, and the rule of law are presented and examined in this first installment of the Cato Home Study Course.
Jason Brennan gives a sense of the sort of questions examined in the field of political philosophy.
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