Philosophy and Methodology

That Ludwig von Mises was the outstanding champion of laizes-faire and the free-market economy in this century is well know and needs no d

In his “A Groundwork for Rights: Man’s Natural End,” Douglas Rasmussen takes issue with a paper I presented at the Fifth Annual L

The right of one person necessarily entails the obligation of another person or persons.

Having adopted a profoundly radical creed at odds with the ruling dogmas of their day, what did Lao-tzu, La Boétie, Quesnay, Turgot, and James Mill offer as a strategy for social change in the direction of liberty?

In describing Adam Smith’s acknowledgments as “neo-plagiarism” (Rashid, 1990), was trying to characterize a situation where a sch

It is the task of this paper to describe what can happen to “a good cause” when it is “ineptly defended,” and to address the problem of the relatio

There are two views of monopoly within what might be called the broad Austrian camp.

The differing attitudes of Plato and Rousseau toward specialization and the division of labor color their views on who should formulate policy on p

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This paper compares the work of two pioneers in the field of law and liberty: F. A. Hayek and his predecessor, Frédéric Bastiat.