Volume 16, Number 4 (2002) Mention “free-market economics” to a member of the lay public and chances are that if he has heard the term at all, he identifies it completely with the name Milton Friedman. For several years, Professor Friedman has won continuing honors from the press and the profession alike, and a school of Friedmanites and
Volume 20, Number 1 (2006) First, I must begin by affirming my conviction that Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker were unsurpassed as political philosophers and that nothing is more needed today than a revival and development of the largely forgotten legacy that they left to political philosophy. By the mid-nineteenth century, the libertarian
The Journal of Libertarian Studies has been founded not simply to provide an outlet for scholarship and research that may be unpopular in a particular discipline. It is the belief that there is a new and growing interdisciplinary discipline—libertarianism—enriched by contributions in each of the particular and seemingly isolated fields that study
Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974) is an “invisible hand” variant of a Lockean contractarian attempt to justify the State, or at least a minimal State confined to the functions of protection. Beginning with a free-market anarchist state of nature, Nozick portrays the State as emerging, by an invisible hand
The categories of “right” and “left” have been changing so rapidly in recent years in America that it becomes difficult to recall what the labels stood for not very long ago. In the case of the left, this have become common knowledge, and we are all familiar with the contracts between “Old Left” and “New Left”, as well as with the rapid changes
Letters from Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard to Ayn Rand. Volume 21, Number 4 (2007) von Mises, Ludwig., and Murray N. Rothbard. “Mises and Rothbard Letters to Ayn Rand.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 21, No. 4 (2007):
Belying their seemingly chaotic diversity, all of modern fiction and modern criticism unite on at least one point: rejection of romanticism. The characteristic literature—and, indeed, art in general—of the twentieth century has been, broadly, either naturalist or nonobjective. Volume 21, Number 4 (2007) Rothbard, Murray N. “Romanticism and
Libertarians tend to focus on two important units of analysis: the individual and the state. And yet, one of the most dramatic and significant events of our time has been the reemergence—with a bang—in the last five years of a third and much neglected aspect of the real world, the “nation.” When the “nation” has been thought of at all, it usually
F. A. Hayek on Liberty and Tradition by John Gray Harold J. Laski: The Liberal Manaqué or Lost Libertarian? by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. A Rationale for Punishment by J. Charles King King on Punishment: A Comment by Murray N. Rothbard Stork Markets: An Analysis of “Baby-selling” by Lawrence A. Alexander and Lyla H. O’Driscoll Intelligence and
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