Philosophy and Methodology
Hegel’s Very Odd Definition of Freedom
Liberalism conceives of freedom as the absence of constraint, but Hegel's definition is more expansive. And, of course, the state is a necessary condition for it.
Luck and Taxes
Some argue that someone’s superior talent or success is itself the result of mere luck. That claim, and its relevance as a justification for redistribution, has generated much controversy.
Working around Leviathan
It's a paradox: never before has a government in human history assumed unto itself the power to regulate the minutiae of daily life as much as this one. At the same time the United States is overall the wealthiest society in the history of the world.
Economist: Your Freedom Is Dangerous Because You Might Set a Bad Example
Why should we think that government officials are better at acting “rationally” than those they regulate? Even if we were to concede that smoking deserves to be restricted, why should we think the government can do it in a reasonable way?
The Inescapability of Law, and of Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe
The Murray Rothbard Memorial Lecture, delivered at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference, discusses anarchistic arguments against the classical liberal and social democratic conceptions of the state.
Bryan Caplan Defends Open Borders and His Critique of Austrian Economics
The Heterodox “Fourth Paradigm” of Libertarianism: An Abstract Eleutherology Plus Critical Rationalism
Untangling the libertarian concepts of interpersonal liberty, this article proposes a new paradigm of libertarianism to solve the old one's problems.
Why Trump’s Ukraine Call Was Small Potatoes
Bob Murphy reviews the scandalous and corrupt activities of recent US presidents.
David Gordon on His Interactions with Hayek and Rothbard, the Philosophy of Economics, and Libertarianism as an Alleged Suicide Pact
Bob Murphy and David Gordon discuss his personal story, Austrian economics, philosophy, and libertarianism