Philosophy and Methodology

Professor Spengler’s, “Richard Cantiilon: Fist of the Modems,” published in 1954, remains the classic survey article of Cantillon

Murray Rothbard dismisses Adam Smith’s contribution to economics as “dubious,” and he lists many specific Smithian lapses.

The work of Hayek, in contrast with the Marxist-Socialist-Interventionist-Galbraithian paradigm that held sway in the mid-20th century, appears as

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

The categories of “right” and “left” have been changing so rapidly in recent years in America that it becomes difficult to

Those who deny that the provision of protection services could be supplied through either the market or some other nonmonopolistic device must ther

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