Richard M. Ebeling

Dr. Richard M. Ebeling is the recently appointed BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He was formerly professor of Economics at Northwood University, president of The Foundation for Economic Education (2003–2008), was the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College (1988–2003) in Hillsdale, Michigan, and served as vice president of academic affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation (1989–2003).

How Socialists Hijacked The Word “Liberal”

In the 19th century, liberalism was identified with the belief in and the defense of individual liberty in various spheres of life.

Socialism: Marking a Century of Death and Destruction

Socialism: Marking a Century of Death and Destruction

Everything the Marxists said about capitalism – exploitation of the many by a privileged few; a gross inequality of wealth and opportunity simply due to an artificial arrangement of control over the means of production; a manipulation of reality to make slavery seem as if it meant freedom – was, in fact, the nature and essence, of Soviet socialism.

Zero-Sum World of Donald Trump

Zero-Sum World of Donald Trump

President Trump views the world as hostile place in which other nations are out to better themselves by making America and the American people poorer, weaker and worse off.

Economic Ideas: Adam Ferguson and Society as a Spontaneous Order

Economic Ideas: Adam Ferguson and Society as a Spontaneous Order

One of the most cherished misunderstandings, if not delusions, of the social engineer – the individual who would presume to attempt to remake society through conscious and planned design – is the confident belief that he (and those like him) can ever know enough to successfully remold mankind and human institutions.

Economic Ideas: Francis Hutcheson and a System of Natural Liberty

Economic Ideas: Francis Hutcheson and a System of Natural Liberty

Adam Smith was one of Hutcheson’s students in Glasgow, and his influence on Adam Smith was singularly significant, from everything from the importance of division of labor and the role of private property, to the normative notion of a free society based on a “system of natural liberty.”

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