ft.com - 5/23/2009
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What Price Liberty? How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost By Ben Wilson Faber £14.99, 480 pages (e-book and pdf from www.whatpriceliberty.co.uk ) FT Bookshop price: £11.99 Cover of 'What Price Liberty?' by Ben Wilson I confess I was left a little puzzled by the recent exhibition at the British ...
whatpriceliberty.co.uk - 5/23/2009
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Photo of Ben Wilson Ben Wilson In 2007,
Ben appeared as the only non-fiction writer in the...
Waterstone's "25 Authors for the Future" list. He was born in 1980 and studied history at Cambridge, both as an undergraduate and postgraduate. He is the author ...
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Risk and liberty
Peter Gallagher —
... arise? All these things can, thanks to new technologies, be policed – and many are falling within the grasp of the state. Once risk becomes the bogey- man of modern society the scope for management and control expands. Risk management seeks no philosophical justification – and brooks no philosophical opposition. It is ideologically neutral. This is the true story of liberty in the modern world. Ideas of freedom derive from ideas of the individual. Nowadays pessimism rules. From the review in the Financial Times ( subscription ) by Niall Ferguson: The police state has a natural ...
Niall Ferguson on "What Price Liberty?"
Finance Trends Matter —
One of the best things I read over the Memorial Day weekend was Niall Ferguson's review in the Financial Times of Ben Wilson's new book, What Price Liberty?. I'd like to share some of it with you. ...
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