Liberty Fund (Redirected from The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics)
Founded | 1960 |
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Founder | Pierre F. Goodrich |
Purpose | Educational |
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Method | Publishing, conferences |
Website | libertyfund |
Liberty Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Carmel, Indiana which promulgates the libertarian views of its founder, Pierre F. Goodrich through publishing, conferences, and educational resources. The operating mandate of the Liberty Fund was set forth in an unpublished memo written by Goodrich "to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals".
History
Liberty Fund was founded by Pierre F. Goodrich in 1960. In 1997 it received an $80 million donation from Goodrich's wife, Enid, increasing its assets to over $300 million.
In November 2015, it was announced that the Liberty Fund was building a $22 million headquarters in Carmel, Indiana.
Liberty Fund has been cited by historian Donald T. Critchlow as one of the endowed conservative foundations which laid the way for the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Projects
The foundation has published several books covering history, politics, philosophy, law, education, and economics. These include:
- Liberty Fund's Natural Law and Enlightenment Series
- Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (Historical-Critical Edition) ISBN 9780865978409
- The Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (Glasgow Edition) ISBN 9780865973695
- David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 2010. ISBN 9780865979659
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo (Edited by Piero Sraffa and Maurice Dobb, 2005) ISBN 9780865979765
Organizations
- The Library of Economics and Liberty (EconLib) – publishes the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (CEE). Articles are written by economists from different schools of thought, and include four Nobel laureates in economics as authors in the 2nd edition (2008). It also includes short biographies of noted economists and a comprehensive index. The original version of the CEE was first published in 1993 as the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics with economist David R. Henderson as the editor. Notable contributors to the first edition included Nobel Prize laureates Gary Becker, Paul Krugman, Thomas Schelling, George Stigler, and James Tobin.
Liberty Fund Online
Besides its main website, the Liberty Fund hosts four websites, including:
- Law & Liberty: Law & Liberty's focus is on the classical liberal tradition of how law and political thought shapes a society of free and responsible persons. Articles and commentary are offered by leading scholars covering a range of legal issues, legal philosophy, and pedagogy. (www.lawliberty.org)
- The Online Library of Liberty: The Online Library of Liberty is an extensive digital library of scholarly works focused on individual liberty and free markets. From Art and Economics to Law and Political Theory, the OLL provides a curated collection of resources available at no charge. More than 2,000 works, often classic texts that are rare or unaffordable to most, are available for downloading. (oll.libertyfund.org)
- Adam Smith Works: A recent contribution by Liberty Fund has been the investigation of the scholarship of Adam Smith, Scottish Enlightenment economist and philosopher. To further the exploration of Smith's works, Liberty Fund received a multi-million grant from the John Templeton Foundation in 2016 to spearhead conferences, host scholars, and create a website around Adam Smith's life and scholarship, notably Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and Wealth of Nations (1776). This is a website that includes educational tools for use by elementary, middle school, high school, and college students. It includes Smith's Lectures on Jurisprudence and writings on astronomy, ancient logic, and ancient physics. Much attention is given to Adam Smith's most known and important works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and The Wealth of Nations (1776). (www.adamsmithworks.org)
- Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib.org)