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An Interview with Dennis O’Keeffe about Benjamin Constant’s, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments (1815)
David Hart interviews Liberty Fund author and Professor of Social Science, Dennis O’Keeffe, about his translation of Benjamin Constant’s Principles of Politics applicable to all Governments (1815). O’Keeffe also discusses the continuing importance of Constant’s political views.

An Interview with Henry C. Clark about his book Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism before Adam Smith (2003)
Liberty Fund author Henry C. Clark, Professor of History at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, talks to David Hart, the Director of Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty, about his book Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism before Adam Smith (2003). He discusses the rich intellectual history of capitalism in the 17th and 18th centuries, the contributions of some lesser known French writers as well as the better known English, the impact that commerce had on traditional European societies, the concept of "luxury", the effect these economic changes had on the lives of women and children, and the links between commerce and individual liberty.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation wth Anthony de Jasay
The relationship of the individual and the state is the central theme of Anthony de Jasay’s distinguished career. Here he discusses the concepts of power, politics, and freedom that led to such seminal works as The State.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Armen A. Alchian
Alchian discusses his contribution to economics as the founder of the "UCLA tradition" of economic thought with its emphasis of the rational, self-seeking behavior of individuals.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Ernest van den Haag
The Dutch-born criminologist talks about his work on criminology, criminal justice, punishment, and the foundations of a free society.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation wth Gary S. Becker
Gary S. Becker discusses his economic ideas with Edward Glaeser, Judge Richard A. Posner, and Edward Lazear. Gary Becker is one of the most original and pathbreaking economists in recent times. When he was named the 1992 Nobel Laureate in Economics, it was for "having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour." Becker’s work led directly to the development of "human capital" theory and the economic analysis of discrimination, crime and punishment, marriage and the family, and the formation of habits. His studies have yielded fresh perspectives on the central problems in these areas, as well as new approaches to solving those problems. Becker is the University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago, and the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Harry V. Jaffa
Jaffa talks about his work on American constitutional theory and history including the nature of the American Republic and the impact of Abraham Lincoln on constitutional matters.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Israel Kirzner
Kirzner discusses the differences between Austrian economics and neo-classical economics, his experiences as a student of Ludwig von Mises, and his careeer as a professor of economics at New York University.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation wth Jacques Barzun
One of our most distinguished contemporary cultural historians, Jacques Barzun reflects on his long academic career and the movement of ideas he helped to shape through his seminal writings on liberal education in America.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with James M. Buchanan (Part 1)
The Nobel Prize winning economist, James M. Buchanan, discusses in part 1 of a two part conversation, the theory of public choice, his exchange theory of economics, and constitutional thought.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with James M. Buchanan (Part 2)
The Nobel Prize winning economist, James M. Buchanan, discusses in part 2 of a two part conversation, the work ethic, the logic of free markets, subjectivism, anarchy, federalism, the influence of philosophy, and the significance of the Nobel Prize.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with John Hospers
Hospers talks about his interests in moral philosophy, aesthetics, the nature of liberty, and his activity as the first Libertarian Party candidate for President in 1972.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Ljubo Sirc
Sirc draws upon his experiences of fighting in the Resistance and the Yugoslav Army, his political opposition and arrest under communism to discuss the economics of socialism and life under communism.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation wth Lord Peter Thomas Bauer
One of the twentieth century’s leading thinkers on the relationship between free trade and the economics of developing countries, Lord Peter Thomas Bauer discusses his clear ideas on the effectiveness of government aid and intervention in the Third World.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation wth Lord Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon
As leaders of the Institute of Economic Affairs, or IEA, in London for many years, Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon pioneered the thoughtful application of free-market principles and greatly influenced public policy and economic thought throughout the world.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with M. Stanton Evans
The journalist M. Stanton Evans talks about his work as a leading journalist and columnist, his founding of the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C., and the role of the press and journalists in a free society.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation wth Manuel Ayau
Manuel Ayau is the founder and former rector and teacher of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquin. Begun as an alternative to the prevailing statist views of higher education in Guatemala, Francisco Marroquin is now regarded as that country’s finest university. In addition to being a successful businessman, Ayau is a former Chairman of the Guatemala Stock Exchange, was a member of the Guatemala House of Representatives, and served as President of the Mont Pelerin Society. After meeting him in 1979, Ronald Reagan described Ayau as "one of the few people in the high political sphere who understands what is going on down there."

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation wth Max Hartwell
One of the foremost historians of the Industrial Revolution discusses what really happened to the quality of life and standard of living for those who lived through the industrialization of the West.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation wth Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman discusses his economic ideas with Gary S. Becker. Recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Milton Friedman has long been recognized as one of our most important economic thinkers, and a leader of the Chicago school of monetary economics. A senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1977, he is also the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1946 to 1976. Friedman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and received the National Medal of Science the same year.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Paul W. McCracken
McCracken, the Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, discusses his activities as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors under several presidents stretching back to Eisenhower.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Ralph McInerny
McInerny talks about his work on Thomas Aquinas, catholic political and religious thought, and his best-selling Father Dowling mystery novels.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Richard Cornuelle
Cornuelle talks about the vital role voluntary institutions have played in American society and how they might be further encouraged to solve social problems without resorting to the state.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Ronald H. Coase
Coase talks about his life work, his contributions to economics, and the "law and economics" movement which he helped create as editor of the Journal of law of Economics from 1964 to 1982.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Sir Alan Walters
Walters discusses his role in the transformation of the British economy during the 1980s as economic advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: Profiles in Liberty - Raoul Berger
Berger, an expert in constitutional law, talks about his earliest days as a young Russian émigré in Chicago, his first career in music, and his later fascination with the legal underpinnings of a free society.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: The Life and Thought of Friedrich A. Hayek
Hayek was one of the most important free market economists of the 20th century, winning the Nobel Prize for Economic Science in 1974. He was a member of the "Austrian school of economics", taught at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, wrote extensively on banking and monetary theory, the socialist calculation debate, and the theory of spontaneous orders.

The Intellectual Portrait Series: Una Conversacion con Manuel Ayau
Manuel Ayau is the founder and former rector and teacher of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquin. Begun as an alternative to the prevailing statist views of higher education in Guatemala, Francisco Marroquin is now regarded as that country’s finest university. In addition to being a successful businessman, Ayau is a former Chairman of the Guatemala Stock Exchange, was a member of the Guatemala House of Representatives, and served as President of the Mont Pelerin Society. After meeting him in 1979, Ronald Reagan described Ayau as "one of the few people in the high political sphere who understands what is going on down there."