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Classical liberalism

  • VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
  • Age of EnlightenmentThe year 1637 marked a turning point when René Descartes published his Discourse on the Method. This text introduced a radical approach to knowledge that…
  • WhiggismThe word Whiggism emerged in the 1680s as a label for a political faction born from the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Lord Shaftesbury formalized these ideas…
  • John LockeOn the 29th of August in the year of our Lord 1632, a boy named John Locke was born in the village of Wrington, Somerset.
  • The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith spent seventeen years compiling notes and studying economic conditions before publishing The Wealth of Nations on the 9th of March 1776.
  • Market economyThe image of Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, from 1968 captures a moment where supply and demand operate without central direction.