Adventures in International Freedom

Tom G. Palmer in his talk “Adventures in International Freedom” at Boston University 26 Oct 2011, argued that the ideas of the liberty movement are global ideas misclassified as western ideas, that the implementation of these ideas is responsible for exponential growth in global per capita wealth over approximately the last 200 years, and that recent ills in the U.S. should be attributed to crony capitalism. He developed these points by presenting photos of himself reaching out to liberty groups around the world, by outlining the relationship between wealth creation and the ideas surrounding property rights, and by citing recent examples of how the rule of law has been violated in the U.S. by the Bush and Obama administrations. His purpose was to give an overview of some of the important ideas in the liberty movement in order to highlight their importance in bringing prosperity to a great number of people around the world. He was speaking to an audience of college students and professionals local to Boston and Cambridge.