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Liberty Lost: The Rise and Demise of Voluntary Association in America Since Its Founding Paperback – September 10, 2023

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Voluntary associations are thousands of years old, but Americans once embraced them like no other society has before, or since. Voluntary associations allow people, even members of disfranchised groups, to "vote" on worthy causes and institutions with their donation dollars and volunteer hours. Unfortunately, Americans have long since forgotten that the best way to palliate most economic and social problems is not formal government, the instruments of which are too often cruel or crude, but voluntary civil society. Maybe this book can help return this country to the truer, participatory, and voluntary form of democracy that it once knew.

About Robert E. Wright

Robert E. Wright is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of over two dozen major books, book series, and edited collections, including AIER's The Best of Thomas Paine (2021) and Financial Exclusion (2019). He has also (co)authored numerous articles for important journals, including the American Economic Review, Business History Review, Independent Review, Journal of Private Enterprise, Review of Finance, and Southern Economic Review. Robert has taught business, economics, and policy courses at Augustana University, NYU's Stern School of Business, Temple University, the University of Virginia, and elsewhere since taking his Ph.D. in History from SUNY Buffalo in 1997.

About AIER

The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, and is home to the Bastiat Society. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CJ4C6PBZ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ American Institute for Economic Research (September 10, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 466 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1630692875
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1630692872
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.72 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.05 x 9 inches
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Robert E. Wright is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Central Michigan University.

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Anthony Sanders
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific history of America's nonprofit organizations
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2023
Many of us vaguely know Americans have a past of forming groups and becoming "joiners" as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote. But the story of those associations and how they formed the bonds of civil society is largely unknown. Robert Wright gives us that story here in meticulous detail. Anyone trying to make sense of America's past of voluntary association (as opposed to state-driven central planning) must read this wonderful book.
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Scully and Mulder
5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Book
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2023
Robert Wright's work is always worth reading, and this book is particularly brilliant. In Liberty Lost, Wright argues that in the United States we focus on private enterprise and what the government can do to solve problems, but we have forgotten the essential role of the Third Sector: "The original mission of the nonprofit sector as a democratic, voluntaristic means of ameliorating social problems, however, has been lost." Now people rely more and more on government intervention, which is often ineffective and deprives people of dignity. Wright insists, "An independent Third Sector serves to remind us that humans have a third motivating force beyond profit (commercial enterprises) and power (government), the urge to serve."
As always, Wright's research is meticulous, persuasive., and conveyed without the jargon that mars so many books of this importance. I recommend this book highly and without reservation.

--Caroline Breashears, Professor of English
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