In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Samuel Gregg
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When Rick Graber called to tell me that I had been awarded the Bradley Prize, I was lost for words. As my mother will tell you, usually in exasperated tones, that doesn’t often happen to me. But one reason for my shock was my knowledge of previous Bradley Prize recipients. Consider some of those people:…
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To an extent unrivalled by any other country, America has been defined by its economy and economic success. When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the young republic for ten months in 1831 and 1832, he immediately noticed the extraordinary degree to which Americans were preoccupied by their economic circumstances. A “spirit of enterprise,” he commented, dominated…
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In June 1946, Switzerland’s newspaper of record Neue Zürcher Zeitung published a long two-part article entitled “The Centenary of British Free Trade.” Its author, the German market-liberal economist Wilhelm Röpke, pointed out that Britain’s decision to cast off tariffs unilaterally in 1846 had been a kind of miracle. Against enormous domestic opposition, Britain’s prime minister…