“Of making many books there is no end,” said Ecclesiastes, but there have long been limits placed on their number by technology. The earliest books were scrolls, sheets of papyrus, vellum, or...
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François Hotman (1524-1590) was a French Protestant political theorist who was part of the monarchomach group who were opponents of absolute monarchy. Hotman trained as a lawyer but later turned...
William Henry Chamberlin (1897–1969) was an American journalist best known for his writings on the Cold War, Communism, and U.S. foreign policy.
Chodorov was an advocate of the free market, individualism, and peace. He began as a supporter of Henry George and edited the Georgeist paper The Freeman before founding his own journal which bec...
Robinson edited the Liberty Fund’s edition of the Collected Works of Arthur Seldon.
Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was a leading constitutional lawyer and Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford University from 1882 to 1909.
One of the authors in the volume of anti-socialist essays edited by Thomas Mackay and published by the Liberty and Property Defence League.
Friedrich von Gentz (1764-1832) came under the influence of the classical liberal philosopher Immanuel Kant at the University of Königsberg and at first welcomed the outbreak of revolution in Fr...
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was a Dutch scholar and jurist whose legal masterpiece, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the law of war and peace) (1625), contributed significantly to the formation of interna...
Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937) was educated at Eton before going to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted to the bar in 1871 and to the Privy Council in 1911. He taught at the Universi...
Caroline Robbins (1903–1999) was educated at the University of London, receiving her Ph.D. there before going to the United States. She taught history at Bryn Mawr College from 1929 to 1971 and...
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694-1748) was born in Geneva to a wealthy and politically well-connected patrician family. He became professor of natural law at the Academy of Geneva and popularized th...
Henry C. Clark has been a visiting professor in the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth College since 2014. Before then, he taught at Canisius College (where he became professor of history), N...
Johannes Althusius was a German political and legal philosopher whose ideal commonwealth was a harmonious ordering of natural associations, beginning with the family and moving up through local a...
Romero was a lawyer in the Colegio de Madrid and translated Frédéric Bastiat’s Economic Harmonies into Spanish.
A Scottish jurist who opposed Grotius’s defense of the freedom of the seas. Welwod used Scripture to argue that in some cases the sea could be occupied and that exclusive national rights over t...
Thomas G. West is a professor of politics at the University of Dallas.
Clyde N. Wilson is Professor of History and Editor of The Papers of John C. Calhoun at the University of South Carolina.
Jacques Barzun was a French-born cultural historian who taught for many years at Columbia University. He also wrote widely on liberal education.
Related Links: Source: This biographical information comes from the editor's notes to Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism before Adam Smith, ed. Henry C. Clark (Indianapolis: L...
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