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Steve Davies

Education Director

Institute of Economic Affairs

Dr. Stephen Davies is education director at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies. Previously, Dr. Davies was a senior lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. A historian, he graduated from St. Andrews University in Scotland in 1976 and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1984. He has authored several books, including Empiricism and History, and was co-editor with Nigel Ashford of The Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought.

Blog Posts

There's one situation where classical liberals can justify foreign intervention.

October 3, 2017
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Role of Government

Editor's note: What follows is a conversation between Dave Rubin, host of the Rubin Report, and Professor Steve Davies, education director at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, about when foreign intervention might be appropriate from a classical liberal perspective. Dave Rubin: You think there is a situation where a libertarian could be for some intervention, basically. Steve Davies: Yes. For any kind of libertarian/classical liberal, the question with foreign policy is which course of action is going to most maximize liberty, both in the country that is potentially doing the intervening,