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February 14, 2014

Friday Roundup, February 14th

Richard M. Reinsch II

In our February Liberty Law Forum Steven Grosby and Bill Dennis weigh in with their essays on the Institutions of American Liberty.

Nick Capaldi’s “To Make a Market” is our feature Books essay this week that reviews Lisa Herzog’s Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, & Political Theory.

Alberto Mingardi of Econ Lib: What consequences for the Swiss referendum? But is there a larger context at work here that the standard libertarian account misses? I think that’s what Walter Russell Mead in Switzerland’s primal scream is arguing. I suspect that to this return of borders, nation-state politics, thumbs in the eyes of transnational progressive and corporate elites, Pierre Manent is saying ‘told you so’.

Richard Epstein on why the classical liberal case against the contraception mandate is superior to a religious exercise argument.

Don Boudreaux and Mark Perry in the WSJ on the myth of the stagnant middle class.

Michael Paulsen asks if intellectual diversity in the legal academy is the most important thing?

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