07/24/2021The Journal of Libertarian StudiesScott Boykin
Evolutionary social theory can form part of a liberal theory of politics, but Hayek and Spencer's evolutionary arguments to explain the emergence of freedom in mass societies are deficient.
The popular pastime of modern democracies of punishing the diligent and thrifty, while rewarding the lazy, improvident, and unthrifty, is cultivated via the State, fulfilling a demo-egalitarian program based on a demo-totalitarian ideology.
According to customary analysis, public goods will not be supplied efficiently. But it does not follow that the good will not be supplied at all, or in a quantity insufficient to “do the job.”
07/22/2021The Journal of Libertarian StudiesMark Thornton
Mark Thornton provides a historical perspective on the growth of libertarianism, showing the limitations of the political path to liberty and the importance of the radical form of libertarianism.
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