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<!--Fill in your link line for CSS and JS in the XSLT here! -->
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1 id="title-index">Politics-Conspiracies-Project</h1>
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<h1 id="title-index">hertecon</h1>
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<nav id="menu">
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<a href="../index.html">
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<div class="button">Home</div>
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</a>
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<a href="../fulltext2.html">
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<a href="../fulltext.html">
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<div class="button">Fulltext</div>
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</a>
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<a href="../analysis.html">
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</div>
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</a>
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</nav>
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<h2>hertecon</h2>
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<p>THE HERITAGE OF ECONOMIC LIBERTY</p>
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<p>By RICHARD M. EBELING</p>
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<p>For the Founding Fathers, economic liberty was inseparable
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from the case for political freedom. Many of the grievances
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enumerated in the Declaration of Independence concern British
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enumerated in the Declaration of Independence concern <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span>
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infringements on the free movement of goods and men between
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the thirteen colonies and the rest of the world.</p>
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<p>It was not a coincidence that the same year that saw the
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legal tender laws excluding or hampering the free choice in
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media of exchange by private individuals. They entered into
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trade wars with each other. Having broken free from the
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shackles of British mercantilism when they declared their
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shackles of <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> mercantilism when they declared their
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independence in 1776, by the late 1780s the sovereign states
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were all practicing that against which they had fought in the
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war for independence.</p>
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states a single, unified free trade area. Most of the Founding
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Fathers were very familiar with the free trade ideas of
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Scotsmen like Adam Smith and David Hume and their French
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colleagues, the <span class="NORP">Physiocrats</span>. They knew that these free traders
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colleagues, the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Physiocrats</span>. They knew that these free traders
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were correct when they advocated the free movement of goods,
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men, and ideas from one part of the globe to another. Freedom
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and prosperity were to be linked together in one system of
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problem is that "the private sector [is] dancing to its short-run tune," while government leadership can offer us the long-term vision for intelligent decision-making.</p>
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<p>Many economists no longer share Adam Smith's vision. Lester
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Thurow, dean of the Sloan School of Management at MIT, says
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that the <span class="NORP">Japanese</span> "pick out an industry to conquer" and unless
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that the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Japanese</span> "pick out an industry to conquer" and unless
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we (read: the government) do something to stop their invasion
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of America, "they" will own and control and "we" will work and
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obey. Edward Ellwood, of the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of
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