Saturday, July 08, 2023

Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Demarcation of the Limits of State Activity

Recommendable! Yes, it was none other than Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1792 who attempted to define the limits of government! If I am not mistaken, this work by Humboldt is also prominently cited in the works of Friedrich August von Hayek.

Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Demarcation of the Limits of State Activity | Mises Wire

Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt. From vol. 1 of Evert A. Duyckinck’s Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America . . . (New York: Johnson & Miles, ca. 1873


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