You're channel has a lot of potential! I love the subject matter and your thoughts on it. One problem is that your audio has a high pitched buzz that makes it hard to listen too. If you resolved that technical issue I think you will start acquiring more subscribers. Thanks for making these!
Wow. I never knew Woodrow Wilson admired Gladstone. I think of Wilson as someone who really increased the power of the State. He was the one who gave the United States the income tax. As you’ve demonstrated, Gladstone wanted to decrease the power of the State which is linked to his desire to rid the United Kingdom of the income tax.
Gladstone's liberalism Iike you said is unique and isn't like the modern left or social liberalism which belives in a larger state. It has been compared to Thatcherism in that they both believed is a small state that didn't interfere in an individuals freedom, with lower taxes, free trade and decreasing political and economic restrictions. With them both having similar financial policies did Gladstone's result in similar economic success and growth for the UK in the late victorian era as Thatcher and did Gladstone help grow the UK economy more then his rival in Disraeli?
thank you for your question and interest. I think the point is that Gladstone's economic policies built upon what was already happening and in many ways he was completing the project Peel had begun - and of course Britain already had a small state. This free market approach was associated with economic success - whether it caused it is much more tricky! Certainly other factors were involved and similarly the mid-victorian boom coincided with Gladstones period as chancellor but probably would have happened anyway. Equally when Disraeli came to power growth was faltering but again this was happening anyway and it carried on when Gladstone returned in 1880. So Gladstone's policies suited the moment and encouraged the growth process underway. Whether it was a recipe for sustained economic growth is too big a question - for example you may say governments needed to take a role to promote education or big infrastructure projects which Gladstone mentally couldn't have accepted at the time. The whole world moved against him and Thatcher for all her talk didnt scale back the state in any major way and we are back where the 1970s left us today. So overall i'd say both men went with the tide of history as it was and werent the authors of it.
I think main differences to classical liberalism are emphasis on the moral virtue of the masses as a force separate from the individual, and maybe the justification of free will in more theological terms rather than individual rational utility maximisation. An individual must be free in order that their character can be judged. There is not much social liberalism in Gladstone in theory as government intervention reduced scope for individual moral character to shape destiny. Or so it seems to me!
You're channel has a lot of potential! I love the subject matter and your thoughts on it. One problem is that your audio has a high pitched buzz that makes it hard to listen too. If you resolved that technical issue I think you will start acquiring more subscribers. Thanks for making these!
Thank you. Very helpful observation. I probably need to get a proper mic to use. I will look into that.
Very useful video, thank you. There's so little on Gladstone on the net for some reason! Really helpful
Thank you! You are right. I will try and do some more at some point.
Yes, my man blazed one on 4/20 and dropped some sick classical liberalism insights
Inspirational!
Wow. I never knew Woodrow Wilson admired Gladstone.
I think of Wilson as someone who really increased the power of the State. He was the one who gave the United States the income tax. As you’ve demonstrated, Gladstone wanted to decrease the power of the State which is linked to his desire to rid the United Kingdom of the income tax.
Gladstone's liberalism Iike you said is unique and isn't like the modern left or social liberalism which belives in a larger state. It has been compared to Thatcherism in that they both believed is a small state that didn't interfere in an individuals freedom, with lower taxes, free trade and decreasing political and economic restrictions.
With them both having similar financial policies did Gladstone's result in similar economic success and growth for the UK in the late victorian era as Thatcher and did Gladstone help grow the UK economy more then his rival in Disraeli?
thank you for your question and interest. I think the point is that Gladstone's economic policies built upon what was already happening and in many ways he was completing the project Peel had begun - and of course Britain already had a small state. This free market approach was associated with economic success - whether it caused it is much more tricky! Certainly other factors were involved and similarly the mid-victorian boom coincided with Gladstones period as chancellor but probably would have happened anyway. Equally when Disraeli came to power growth was faltering but again this was happening anyway and it carried on when Gladstone returned in 1880. So Gladstone's policies suited the moment and encouraged the growth process underway. Whether it was a recipe for sustained economic growth is too big a question - for example you may say governments needed to take a role to promote education or big infrastructure projects which Gladstone mentally couldn't have accepted at the time. The whole world moved against him and Thatcher for all her talk didnt scale back the state in any major way and we are back where the 1970s left us today. So overall i'd say both men went with the tide of history as it was and werent the authors of it.
How does Gladstone Liberalism' differ from Classical or Social Liberalism'?
I think main differences to classical liberalism are emphasis on the moral virtue of the masses as a force separate from the individual, and maybe the justification of free will in more theological terms rather than individual rational utility maximisation. An individual must be free in order that their character can be judged. There is not much social liberalism in Gladstone in theory as government intervention reduced scope for individual moral character to shape destiny. Or so it seems to me!
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 any other aspects of Gladstonian Liberalism' that you haven't mentioned in the video?
oh how far removed our modern "liberal democrat" party has become from the likes of the legendary gladstone and DLG...