Friedman Contra Rothbard
In a series of posts to an Internet discussion group several years ago, David Friedman severely criticized Murray Rothbard's account of Adam Smith in his Economic Thought Before Adam Smith
Philosophy and Methodology
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Something to Cheer at The New York Times
Earlier today I would not have believed it possible that I would write something in praise of an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times.
Does the Name “Ayn Rand” Ring a Bell?
In his New York Times column of June 3, Joseph Nocera asks
4. Libertarian Applications to Current Problems: The Problems
From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
3. The State
From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Thoughts on Intellectual Property, Scarcity, Labor-ownership, Metaphors, and Lockean Homesteading
The following edited comments are excerpted from a recent email discussion with Walter Block and one of his correspondents, a Philosophy Professor
2. The Libertarian Creed: Property and Exchange
From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Are you a decentralist libertarian or a centralist who wants to impose liberty (and ends up creating despotism)?
Here is a test case to separate decentralist libertarians, who believe that divided sovereignty is the best long-run protection for liberty, from t
RatesRise, Lines Lengthen at the ol’ PO
I don’t mean to pick on the US Postal Service, but I must admit to a strong (but not yet clinical) obsession with monopolies — especially tho
