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{{Short description|American private educational foundation}}
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'''Liberty Fund, Inc.''' is
== History ==
Liberty Fund was founded by entrepreneur [[Pierre F. Goodrich]] in 1960. Goodrich, "one of the richest men in Indiana", was involved with coal mines, corn production, telecommunications, and securities.<ref name="swi">{{cite web|last=Swiatek|first=Jeff|title=Liberty Fund building $22M headquarters in Carmel|url=http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2015/11/02/liberty-fund-building-22m-headquarters-carmel/74468044/|website=Indy Star|access-date=3 November 2015|archive-date=6 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106141707/http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2015/11/02/liberty-fund-building-22m-headquarters-carmel/74468044/|url-status=live}}</ref> Goodrich was a member of the neoliberal or classically liberal [[Mont Pelerin Society]], an international organization of academics, intellectuals, and business leaders who advocated free market economic policies. Goodrich was also an acolyte of [[Austrian School]] economist [[Ludwig von Mises]].<ref>{{cite book|last=MacLean|first=Nancy|date=2018|title=[[Democracy in Chains]]|page=125|publisher=Penguin Random House|isbn=9781101980972|oclc=1029879485|orig-date=2017}}</ref> Historian [[Donald T. Critchlow]] notes that Liberty Fund was one of the endowed [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]] foundations which laid the way for the election of U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1980.<ref>{{cite book|last=Critchlow|first=Donald T.|orig-year=2005|year=2008|title=Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism|publisher=Princeton University Press|oclc=191755011|isbn=9780691136240|page=5}}</ref>
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== Projects ==
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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}}<ref name="CSUS" />
* ''The Works and Correspondence of [[David Ricardo]]'' (Edited by [[Piero Sraffa]] and [[Maurice Dobb]], 2005) {{ISBN|9780865979765}}
=== Liberty Fund's Conference Program ===
Since its inception, Liberty Fund has hosted more than 6,000 small, Socratic conferences, holding these conferences primarily in North America, Europe, and Latin America. However, it has held a small number of conferences in other regions of the world as well, including Asia, Australia, and North Africa. Conferences are organized primarily by scholars who work with Liberty Fund staff to establish a theme and select readings that explore certain aspects of liberty. As a result, thousands of individual conferences have been held in a myriad of disciplines, including economics, history, philosophy, religion, literature, law, and including, most recently, genomics and artificial intelligence.
Individual conferences cover a broad range of topics and themes, including political theory and history, economics, literature, fine arts, science and technology, and law. Authors and thinkers discussed include William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Fredrick Douglass, and economists Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and James Buchanan. Past conference titles include “Freedom and Rebellion in Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'', “Wisdom, Knowledge and the Good Life,” “Hobbes, Liberty, and the Rule of Law,” “Liberty and Power in the Mexican Revolution,” and “Civil Society in the Plague Year.”
Besides its main website, the Liberty Fund also sponsors the following websites:<ref name="About">{{cite web | url=http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/about | title=About Liberty Fund | publisher=Liberty Fund | date=April 10, 2014 | access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref>▼
Scholars and professionals gather at these conferences, normally for three days, to engage in a conversation based upon preselected readings. The goal is for conferees to explore in depth the ideals, history, and institutions of a free society.
In his book ''[[The Assault on Reason]]'', former U.S. Vice President and presidential candidate [[Al Gore]] wrote that between 2002 and 2004, 97% of the attendees at Liberty Fund training seminars for judges were [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] administration appointees. Gore suggests that such conferences and seminars are one of the reasons that judges who regularly attend such conferences "are generally responsible for writing the most radical pro-corporate, antienvironmental, and activist decisions". Referring to what he calls the "Big Three"—the [[Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment]], [[George Mason University]]'s Law & Economics Center, and the Liberty Fund—Gore adds, "These groups are not providing unbiased judicial education. They are giving multithousand-dollar vacations to federal judges to promote their [[Far-right politics|radical right-wing]] agenda at the expense of the public interest."<ref>{{cite book|last=Gore|first=Al|title=The Assault on Reason|year=2007|publisher=Penguin Press|isbn=978-1-59420-122-6|url=https://archive.org/details/assaultonreason00gore_0|url-access=registration|quote=Liberty Fund .|page=[https://archive.org/details/assaultonreason00gore_0/page/234 234]}}</ref>▼
Major contributions to specific intellectual disciplines have been a series of conferences led by economists [[James M. Buchanan|James Buchanan]], [[Gordon Tullock]], and [[Geoffrey Brennan]] on [[Public choice|Public Choice Theory]]. Professor [[Henry Manne]] spearheaded conferences from the late 1970s to the early 2000s that made a considerable contribution to the field of [[Law and economics|Law and Economics]]. Scholars [[William B. Allen]], [[Forrest McDonald]], [[Lance Banning]], [[Gordon S. Wood]] and [[Jack P. Greene|Jack P. Green]] have served as either directors or discussion leaders of dozens of conferences on the early history of the American Republic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historic Documents Library: Founding Era {{!}} Constitution Center |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/time-period/founding-era |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=National Constitution Center – constitutioncenter.org |language=en}}</ref>
=== Liberty Fund's Publishing Program ===
Liberty Fund’s publishing program began in 1971 with the publication of ''Education in a Free Society'' coauthored by Wabash College Professor [[Benjamin A. Rogge]] and Pierre F. Goodrich. (Rogge was a founding director of Liberty Fund in 1960).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Starbuck |first=Dane |title=The Goodriches: An American Family |publisher=Liberty Fund Inc. |isbn=9780865971844 |edition= |publication-date=1 June 2001 |pages=416, 427–428}}</ref> Since then, Liberty Fund has published more than 400 books exploring the idea of liberty across many disciplines, including economics, political thought, American history, law, and education.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.libertyfund.org/ |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=Liberty Fund |language=en-US}}</ref> As part of Liberty Fund’s commitment to the exchange of ideas, Liberty Fund keeps in print many titles that would otherwise be unavailable.
Some of its most popular or influential publications include:
* '''''[[The Federalist Papers]]''''' by [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay]], and [[James Madison]] (ed. by George W. Carey and James McClellan)
* '''''[[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]]''''' by [[Adam Smith]]
* '''''Leisure, the Basis of Culture''''' by [[Josef Pieper]]
* '''''Liberty, Order, and Justice''''' by James McClellan
* '''''[[Omnipotent Government]]''''' by [[Ludwig von Mises]]
=== Liberty Fund Online ===
▲Besides its main website, the Liberty Fund
* '''''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<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Smith's Enlightened World |url=https://www.templeton.org/grant/adam-smiths-enlightened-world |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=John Templeton Foundation}}</ref> 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)
* '''''The Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib.org)''''' with its most popular program a podcast (EconTalk)<ref>{{cite web |date=13 February 2017 |title=The Case Against Sugar: Gary Taubes On EconTalk |url=http://www.valuewalk.com/2017/02/sugar-weight-loss/ |publisher=[[The Foundation for Economic Education]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=14 December 2016 |title=Liberty Fund Links |url=https://liberty-review.org/liberty-fund-links/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326230147/https://liberty-review.org/liberty-fund-links/ |archive-date=26 March 2017 |access-date=26 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{LCCN|2007015993}}; {{OCLC|237794267|750248783|730302176}}; {{ISBN|978-0865976658|978-0865976665}}</ref> hosted by [[Russ Roberts]] long-time Stanford professor and current president of Jerusalem’s Shalem College. For more than fifteen years, Roberts has interviewed several hundred scholars and thought leaders, including [[Marc Andreessen|Mark Andreessen]], [[Milton Friedman]], [[Richard Epstein]], [[Thomas Sowell]], [[Cass Sunstein]], [[Jeffrey Sachs]], [[Anne Applebaum]], [[Ronald Coase]], [[Freeman Dyson]], and [[Deirdre McCloskey]]. (www.econtalk.org)
=== Intellectual Portrait Series ===
Liberty Fund’s Intellectual Portrait Series contains in-depth conversations with more than thirty of the world’s leading academics in economics, political thought, law, and other disciplines. Liberty Fund also makes available detailed educational documentaries on Adam Smith and F.A. Hayek and features historical overviews of the Industrial Revolution, Hong Kong, and the Constitution of the United States.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Liberty Fund Books 2022 Catalogue (The Art of Conversation) |publisher=Liberty Fund Books |year=2022 |pages=162}}</ref>
== Reception ==
▲In his book ''[[The Assault on Reason]]'', former U.S. Vice President and presidential candidate [[Al Gore]] wrote that between 2002 and 2004, 97% of the attendees at Liberty Fund training seminars for judges were [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] administration appointees. Gore suggests that such conferences and seminars are one of the reasons that judges who regularly attend such conferences "are generally responsible for writing the most radical pro-corporate, antienvironmental, and activist decisions". Referring to what he calls the "Big Three"—the [[Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment]], [[George Mason University]]'s Law & Economics Center, and the Liberty Fund—Gore adds, "These groups are not providing unbiased judicial education. They are giving multithousand-dollar vacations to federal judges to promote their [[Far-right politics|radical right-wing]] agenda at the expense of the public interest."<ref>{{cite book |last=Gore |first=Al
== See also ==
{{Portal|Economics|Liberalism|Libertarianism}}
* [[Economic liberalism]]
* [[Libertarian conservatism]]
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