While rejecting the practical
doctrines of classical liberalism like laissez - faire, Hobhouse praised the work of earlier classical liberals like Richard Cobden in dismantling an archaic order of society and older forms of coercion.
The problem is that a basic
tenet of classical liberalism — a tenet generally accepted in the Western world by «liberals,» as well as by many «conservatives» — is that differences regarding fundamental principles of human nature and morality are not a threat to social and political life.
Schlueter argued that the founders» philosophy was indeed sustainable because it combined the
best of classical liberalism, social contract liberalism, and the natural law tradition.
Also you quote Von Mises, that although a great economist and
defender of classical liberalism, he was also contemporary to the its decline in US (after a series of economic depressions).
At the heart of Tomasi's
revival of classical liberalism is the claim that economic liberties ought to be considered basic in the same sense that political liberties are in the Rawlsian scheme.
The
ideas of classical liberalism remained essentially unchallenged until a series of depressions, thought to be impossible according to the tenets of classical economics, led to economic hardship from which the voters demanded relief.
Furthermore, it can be argued that this school of thought did not develop
out of classical liberalism around the turn of the century — when, for instance, the alleged fraudulence of freedom of contract in the labor market is supposed to have been discovered.
Mises» personal and intellectual experience taught him vividly why the nationalism at the heart of Trumpism is the worst
enemy of classical liberalism, the humane and liberating and wealth - generating tradition Mises sustained and furthered.
[5] As an economic philosophy, neoliberalism emerged among European liberal scholars in the 1930s as they attempted to trace a so - called «third» or «middle» way between the conflicting
philosophies of classical liberalism and socialist planning.
[23]: 14 — 15 The impetus for this development arose from a desire to avoid repeating the economic failures of the early 1930s, which neoliberals mostly blamed on the economic
policy of classical liberalism.
In the decades that followed, the use of the term «neoliberal» tended to refer to theories which diverged from the more laissez - faire
doctrine of classical liberalism and which promoted instead a market economy under the guidance and rules of a strong state, a model which came to be known as the social market economy.
The first sense is that
of classical liberalism, which conceives the freedom of the individual as the highest good.
i was going to pen some brief thing (or try) pointing out that, «unless you've established the basic «ground rules»
of classical liberalism..»