“Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London—these are the antecedents of ordered liberty in America. Each tradition left its mark on American social and political institutions, and continue to influence them today.”

https://www.aier.org/article/the-american-tradition-of-ordered-liberty/

“A liberal curriculum can and should include liberal economics.  Both make sense only if we refuse to interpret the past under the assumption that our ancestors were morons.  Committing to rational choice, which in my framework is synonymous with liberal economics, is how we treat the Great Books with the respect they deserve.”

https://egnatiavia.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-method-not-subject-liberal-economics.html

Why reading Xenophon from the perspective of contemporary economics fails to give the great Athenian his due: https://egnatiavia.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-wealth-and-welfare-reading-of.html

“A conventional economic analysis of the text—that is, one concerned primarily with wealth and welfare—focuses on the many lines devoted to labor, mercantile activity, law, and prudence.  Wealth-and-welfare economists will be drawn to these subjects because they most clearly embody conventional economic concerns with production and distribution, as well as the rules governing these processes.”

https://egnatiavia.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-wealth-and-welfare-reading-of-hesiods.html

“If economics only applied to circumstances favoring avaricious behavior, it would be wholly proper for scholars of the humane disciplines to hold economics in contempt.  Fortunately for economists, the antecedent is false.”

https://egnatiavia.blogspot.com/2020/09/universalizing-economics.html

“Economics can and must be used to make sense of the human condition.  The unity-in-diversity—one might say the catholicity—of human society is rendered intelligible by the rationality postulate.”

https://egnatiavia.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-path-to-liberal-economics.html

Economists sometimes use rationality in an illiberal way. When they do so, they cease being students of society, and assume the roles of would-be saviors. But this is just hubris: https://egnatiavia.blogspot.com/2020/08/illiberal-economics-use-and-abuse-of.html

What makes economics a liberal discipline? Answer: the rationality postulate. Armed with rational choice, the economist can confidently say, “Nothing human is alien to me”: https://egnatiavia.blogspot.com/2020/08/nothing-human-is-alien-to-me-liberality.html

What is liberal education?  When Plato, St. Basil the Great, and Albert Jay Nock agree on something, we should listen carefully.

https://egnatiavia.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-liberal-tradition-in-arts-and.html

Is economics a liberal art?  The question is more complicated than you might think: https://egnatiavia.blogspot.com/2020/07/liberal-economics.html?fbclid=IwAR2RintLEggX9qz4r8PL1KNI4XgcsjBrPU8yQHbjBglVUQlMdxqyHZc0DI4