Austrian Economics Overview

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

This section provides short descriptions of scholarly articles expounding on libertarian theory or otherwise of special interest to libertarians.

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.

In this article, Gabriel Calzada Álvarez offers a review of Hernando de Soto's The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.

In this article I will revise Mises and Hayek’s thesis about the proper categories of economics.

An introduction to the 20th Volume of the Journal of Libertarian Studies by Robert T. Long.

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”