This has similarly been a central message of the great free - market Austrian School economists, most notably Ludwig von Mises (
another personal classical liberal icon), who in his 1949 magnum opus Human Action claimed:
There's one other way that American liberalism differs from
classical liberalism:
classical liberals took a deontological perspective on liberty, viewing
personal autonomy and the pursuit of happiness as things that are inherently worthy of being promoted, regardless of what they lead to.