Liggio Legacy Project

Book Review by Leonard P. Liggio, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Washington, DC Donald J. Devine, America’s Way Back: Reclaiming Freedom, Tradition, and Constitution (Wilmington, Delaware, ISI Books, 2013). The two subtitles on the book cover are: ”Proud To Be a Libertarian,” and “Celebrate Traditional Values.” The late lamented Georgetown University professor of government, George W. Carey, said of the book: “A brilliant analysis of the major factors that have contributed to our nation’s decline.  A very timely effort on perhaps the most critical issue of our time.” The anti-hero of America’s Way Back is Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was one of the leading advocates of Progressivism…

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Seoul, Korea, February 10-14, 2000 The Global Economy and Values Chairman: Prof. Leonard P. Liggio, Atlas Economic Research Foundation Utilitarianism introduces a minimum standard of values. In general, Utilitarianism is an accepted minimum for social interaction. But, there is a wider standard of values based on natural rights and justice. Ideally, social interaction should be based on a standard based on natural rights. Sadly, many people do not understand the strict science of ethics, and they seek to intrude other concerns into the idea of justice between persons. They destroy justice by trying to have it cover too many issues.…

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Recently a famous Siberian tribal singer passed away. He had been born in Tannu Tuva. Tannu Tuva is on the border of central Siberia and northwest Mongolia. From 1921 to 1944 it was an independent Republic, before it was absorbed into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Tannu Tuva had been created by the Soviet authorities as an ‘independent’ republic as one mechanism to by-pass economic sanctions and boycotts of the Soviet Union. A similar shorter-lived subterfuge was the Far Eastern Republic on the Pacific Ocean coast of eastern Siberia. As a youthful stamp collector, the stamps of Tannu Tuva…

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New York Review of Books (May 23, 2013) reviews Benoit Mandelbrot’s The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverik (Pantheon).  Mandelbrot was born in Warsaw in 1924 and luckily joined his mathematician uncle in Paris. When he came to US he had brushes with several US universities, such as MIT, Harvard and Chicago, but he did not fit into the mainstream of academic mathematics and found a home at the mathematics research laboratory of IBM in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, New York. After age sixty-five he was appointed a professor at Yale University. Mandelbrot contributed importantly to the development of fractals, which I came…

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New York Review of Books (May 23, 2013) reviews Benoit Mandelbrot’s The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverik (Pantheon). Mandelbrot was born in Warsaw in 1924 and luckily joined his mathematician uncle in Paris. When he came to US he had brushes with several US universities, such as MIT, Harvard and Chicago, but he did not fit into the mainstream of academic mathematics and found a home at the mathematics research laboratory of IBM in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, New York. After age sixty-five he was appointed a professor at Yale University. Mandelbrot contributed importantly to the development of fractals, which I came…

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