Philosophy and Methodology

Why be libertarian, anyway? By this we mean: what’s the point of the whole thing?

Education is a perennially important and controversial subject, especially in a country as child-centered as the United States.

The recent activities of the Passport Office of the State Department have recently made headlines in the press.

If there was anything that characterized the Old Left it was adulation of labor unions and of the process by which the government has created, main

Fifty years ago, on Easter Monday, April 25, 1916, began the glorious Irish Revolution, a revolution that was to end by sweeping away a monstrous r

The lack of revolutions, even in highly-taxed societies points to the possibility that many are willing to tolerate rather high taxation rates, wri

This Festschrift is dedicated to one of the outstanding champions of liberty in Germany.  For most of his scientific life, Gerard Radnitzky has been known as a philosopher of science in the tradition of Karl Popper. 

Amartya Sen's wide-ranging book grasps a point ignored by many economists.  Economists are generally alive to the virtues of markets, and few since the collapse of communism have a good word to say about central planning.

The debate concerns the issue of whether the Austrian or the neo-classical vision more closely approaches the truth in economics, with regard to such issues as methodology,

This paper has incorporated challenges to the dominant neoclassical model that were fashioned by Rothbard and, to a much lesser extent, Baumol.