Austrian Economics Overview

In this article, Professor Thomas E. Woods Jr. offers a review of Ronald Steel’s Walter Lippmann and the American Century.

The aim of this article is to resolve the putative contradiction between Hayek’s “legal framework of general and abstract rules”

In this article, Robert P. Murphy reviews Leland B.

2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, a novel that has had an enormous impact on the libertarian movement. This issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies presents pieces commemorating the novel and its legacy.

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.

Featuring Walter Block, Thomas DiLorenzo, Guido Hülsmann, Robert Murphy, Timothy Terrell, Mark Thornton, and Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2014.