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Government Transparency: What It Is, How It Works, and Its Limits
Publishing information is not enough: transparency requires public decisions and resources to be findable, understandable, and open to scrutiny.
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Chronological archive of Libertatis Venezuela publications. Here you can review every published article without filtering by category.
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Moral Responsibility: What It Is and When It Can Be Attributed
Moral responsibility allows us to ask people to answer for actions and omissions, but it requires us to consider how much control and knowledge they actually had.
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Inviolability of the Home: What It Protects, Scope, and Limits
The inviolability of the home protects a sphere of autonomy against arbitrary entry and searches. It is not absolute, but it requires legal grounds, limits, and oversight.
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Liberal Individualism: What It Is, Principles, and Criticisms
Liberal individualism treats each person as a bearer of rights and requires power exercised over them to be justified, without denying the importance of social bonds.
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Neutral State: Meaning, Types, Rights, and Limits
A neutral state refrains from military participation in a war between other states and must protect its territory impartially; neutrality does not require moral silence or passivity.
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Federal State: What It Is, How It Works, and Key Differences
A federal state combines federal institutions with self-governing territorial units. The key lies in how its constitution divides and protects their powers.
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Natural Law and Institutional Crisis: Legitimacy, Limits, and Safeguards
Natural law provides a standard for judging power beyond mere legality, but only rules, checks, and safeguards turn that standard into effective protection.
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Due Process: What It Is, What It Guarantees, and How It Limits Power
Due process requires established rules, a genuine opportunity to be heard, and an impartial, reasoned decision. It protects the decision-making process, not the outcome.
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Ownership and responsibility: making decisions, bearing risk, and repairing harm
Ownership creates a sphere of decision-making, but it does not make an owner responsible for everything: control, conduct, harm, and attribution rules all matter.
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Urban Property: What It Is, What It Allows, and Its Limits
Urban property combines ownership of real estate with the rules governing its use, development, and relationship to the city.
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Liquidity Preference: Why People Choose to Keep Money Available
Liquidity preference explains why people and businesses hold money balances even when other assets may offer a return.
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Liberalism and Citizenship: Rights, Duties, and Limits on Power
Liberal citizenship is more than holding a passport or casting a ballot: it combines equal status, protected rights, and the means to participate and hold power accountable.
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Inflation in Venezuela: Causes, Mechanisms, and How to Interpret It
Inflation in Venezuela has no single cause. Understanding it requires tracing the links among fiscal financing, depreciation, expectations, supply, and the loss of confidence in the currency.
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Central Banking and Social Cooperation: Relationship, Functions, and Limits
Central banking supports part of the monetary infrastructure that enables millions of exchanges, but it does not create the goals, agreements, or knowledge of those who cooperate.
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Municipalism: What It Is, How It Works, and Its Limits
Municipalism seeks to give municipalities real decision-making power, but proximity alone does not guarantee good government, efficiency, or freedom.
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Individual Dignity: What It Means and Why It Limits Power
Individual dignity recognizes the inherent and equal worth of every person. It does not depend on usefulness, reputation, or conduct, and it guides both everyday respect and the limits that should be placed on power.
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Land tenure: meaning, rights, forms, and legal security
Land tenure organizes who may access, use, control, or transfer rights over a parcel of land. It does not always mean full ownership or a registered title.
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Price Signals: What They Tell Us and How They Guide Decisions
A guide to what a price change reveals—and what it does not—why relative prices matter, and how they help coordinate decisions.
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Market coordination: how decisions adjust without a central plan
Market coordination is the process through which people and businesses revise independent plans through prices, exchange, and competition.
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Accountability: What It Is and How It Differs from Transparency
Learn what accountability is, its core elements, and why transparency or a financial report alone cannot effectively check power.
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A Critique of Coercive Psychiatry: Autonomy, Medicine, and Power
A critique of institutionalized medicine and coercive psychiatry centered on autonomy, paternalism, consent, and limits on power over the patient.
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Limited Popular Sovereignty: Why the Will of the People Is Not Absolute
The people can be the ultimate source of authority without giving a majority or a government absolute power. The key is to distinguish sovereignty itself from its exercise.
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Judicial Review: What It Is, How It Works, and Its Limits
Judicial review allows courts to determine whether public power has been exercised according to law, but its scope, institutions, and effects vary across legal systems.
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What Classical Liberalism Stands For: Principles and Limits on Power
Classical liberalism is about more than free markets: it seeks to protect liberty through rights, general laws, limits on power, and voluntary cooperation.