Richard Cobden

From the School of Cooperative Individualism
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Ed Dodson, headmaster of the School of Cooperative Individualism, has spent countless hours compiling one of the finest online libraries in the world. Each month we'll recommend a top article featured in that library.

And now, the selection for June --

A taste of the exciting free trade debates from 150 years ago. (Note -- back then, "free trade" was a beneficial freedom that good people supported and entrenched privilege opposed. "Free trade" meant free trade, unlike today when it means "trade favoritism, special commercial privileges for an elite few.") Here are the words of a great and successful free trade leader:

Richard Cobden on Free Trade with All Nations


Previous selections include:

Turner on the Frontier

Winston Churchill on Rights

Ed Dodson on the Stateless Society

Henry George on the Single Tax

Frederick C. Howe's Confessions


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