http://archive.mises.org/14423/sir-josiah-child-false-friend-of-freedom/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Fri, 24 May 2013 20:55:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://archive.mises.org/14423/sir-josiah-child-false-friend-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-735181 WH Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:34:33 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=14423#comment-735181 I think it’s more that he disagrees both with the popular Mercantilism of 17th and 18th century England as well as the utilitarianism and various economic fallacies that arose in late 19th century England. What makes it even more troublesome for him is the Whig (and also Marxist) view of history, i.e. that the late 19th century ethics and economics must be superior to the earlier natural rights theory and economists such as Turgot and Bastiat purely because they came later in chronology.

]]> http://archive.mises.org/14423/sir-josiah-child-false-friend-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-735130 A Liberal In Lakeview Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:10:34 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=14423#comment-735130 By “England” you mean “the English”. Your generalization, being unqualifed, implies “all English”. But I do not believe that M.R. hated Herbert Spencer.

]]> http://archive.mises.org/14423/sir-josiah-child-false-friend-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-735054 Lou Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:04:48 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=14423#comment-735054 It’s me, or Rothbard really hates England?

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