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, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development.

Classical liberalism arose at a time when Christian orthodoxy was still vibrant.

taken for granted.

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.