The UK Libertarian

NB, I am not Davy. Not exactly sure what prompted it, but good golly is George Monbiot not mincing any words about his thoughts on Libertarianism over at the Guardian. Sadly, all we get is a horrible collection of misrepresentation, straw-man arguments, demagoguery, and outright misunderstanding of basic Libertarian principles. Let’s take this a bit [...]

Spotted on Reddit, had to post it here: If this is your first time visiting The UK Libertarian do not be put off by the lack of updates recently. There is a wealth of archived material found by clicking through on the ‘categories’ links on the right. Here are a few quick links: Articles Economics [...]

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One  of the greatest things about Capitalism is that through competition and simple self-interest new innovations and products come down in price all on their own until before long an item that was originally the preserve of the rich–the microwave, the auto-mobile, the mobile phone, the personal computer etc.–becomes easily affordable for even the poor. People [...]

I just finished listening to the audio of a Bryan Caplan lecture he delivered last year at the Applying Liberty Seminar. The topic of the talk was “Public opinion for libertarians” and it’s one of the most interesting lectures I’ve heard in a long time, in particular because it challenged a lot of the premises [...]

Another great lecture from Learn Liberty. The issue of sweatshop labour is a favourite of lefties and liberals everywhere. Little do they realise when they protest sweatshops that they’re destroying what little opportunities the poor in third world countries actually have. In some examples in Cambodia, pressure on corporations to close sweatshops actually lead to [...]