Philosophy and Methodology

Randy Holcombe’s “Government: unnecessary but Inevitable” (2004) is an interesting and challenging, but ultimately fallacious, essay on

Murray N. Rothbard was an economist, a philosopher, an historian, and a cultural commentator.

Holcombe (2004) argued that government was inevitable. In Block (2005) I maintained that this institution was not unavoidable.

“The Broken Window,” An essay written by Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), was the first of a dozen short essays compiled under the heading, What i

As regards the views about probability of Ludwig von Mises, it is undeniably true that these display considerable nuance and that they can be consi

In this article, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe discusses immigration, natural order, and private property.

Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)

When scholars look for anticipations of classical liberal, Austrian, and libertarian ideas in early Chinese thought, attention usually focuses not

For many libertarians, the thesis of self-ownership is the foundation of their political philosophy.

According to Walter Block, Kevin Carson’s (2004) Studies in Mutualist Political Economy is an infuriating book.

This study introduces the ideas of Robert Lewis Dabney on universal education.