Austrian Economics Overview

Beginning with this issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, this section will provide short descriptions of recent scholarly articles expoundi

Casual observation of the last thirty years or so indicates that the role government plays in the lives of individuals has been increasing.

The American anti-statist intellectual tradition includes a wide variety of thinkers, from left utopians to secessionist agrarians to right anarchists.

There exists today in Anglo-American economics a veritable “conspiracy of silence” regarding the works and achievements of the French L

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the monetary philosophies of some of the leading Jacksonian economic theorists, as revealed during their op

The point to be emphasized in this paper is that if one starts with a different view of efficiency and market optimality, an entirely different set

In this article, Professor Robert P.

The present paper defends the position of libertarian centrism, or libertarian purity (Gregory 2006), or plumb line libertarianism, vis-a-vis its t

When Murray Rothbard founded the Journal of Libertarian Studies in 1977, publishing opportunities for libertarian scholarship, especially radical  libertarian scholarship, were even rarer than they are today. Certainly the intellectual climate was beginning to improve. New books and conferences, along with the Nobel prizes for Friedrich A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, had all combined to give broadly libertarian approaches a higher academic profile. In Rothbard's vision, libertarianism represented not simply a set of policy proposals, but a wide ranging and diverse body of social theory articulating an integrated understanding of human agency and social interaction underlying such policy proposals. That's why it's the Journal of Libertarian Studies and not just the journal of libertarianism.

It was October 1957, several days before the official publication date.