About the Books
This book’s main theme shows how societies developed the essential values and institutions that optimize the functioning of that extended order. That order exists everywhere human communities exist; it can function well or clumsily. However, since its optimal form exists alongside liberty and freedom of all kinds, the book examines governance in terms of the predicates of what Ralph L. Bayrer characterizes as a Free Extended Order of Human Cooperation (FEO).
More specifically, to further clarify these concepts, this book: (1) defines the elements of the FEO, (2) characterizes the forces of predation that must be countered to realize its benefits, (3) outlines the institutions that have arisen to combat such predation – notably the U.S. Constitution, (4) shows how those institutions have been undermined (at an enormous cost) over the last century, (5) identifies the lessons available from the experience of others as this predation is a human phenomenon that occurs everywhere, (6) defines the core nature of the current political/philosophical debate as science versus sentimentality, and (7) shows how we can restore the constitutional heritage most supportive of the FEO.
Book details:
ETERNAL VIGILANCE
GUARDING AGAINST THE PREDATORY STATE
by Ralph L. Bayrer
Language : English
Publication Date : 3/19/2020
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6 x 9
Page Count : 342
ISBN: 9781796093247
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6 x 9
Page Count : 342
ISBN : 9781796093254
Liberty, Science and Wealth
Liberty, Science and Wealth describes how the extended order arose out of mankind’s atavistic past to produce free markets, institutions securing liberty, the possibility of more empowered individuals, and modern science. It examines in some detail all the world’s major cultural groupings to show how values, worldviews, and institutions necessary to the workings of the modern world did or did not evolve, and why. That analysis helps one to gain insight into a host of related issues: why some poorer countries continue to languish, why attempts at nation building confound us, and why trillions of dollars of Western financial assistance to less developed countries have failed to assist. In other words, by examining the worldviews of different cultural groups, the specific hurdles they face in adopting the predicates of the extended order become much more evident. At the same time, we get to appreciate the virtues of our affluent societies so as to better protect and nurture them.
“Ralph Bayrer’s new book, Free People-Free Markets: Their Evolutionary Origins, is a timely reaffirmation of freedom’s central role in the creation of American prosperity and the most celebrated advances of western civilization. Relying on the thorough scholarship and clarity of argument, Bayrer makes the compelling case that mankind’s progress in the last millennium rests on a narrow foundation of freedom, a lesson people forger at their peril.”
“This book is a compelling, new perspective on economic and political history, which can be expected to make a contribution to both academic and popular understanding. But its most important contribution will be in helping guide current governmental decisions away from avoidable errors.”
—Phillip Scribner,
Associate Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, American University
Book Details
Language : English
Publication Date : 11/29/2021
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6×9
Page Count : 398
ISBN : 9781543499735
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6×9
Page Count : 398
ISBN : 9781543499742
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 398
ISBN : 9781543499728