Philosophy and Methodology

Kinsella and Tinsley (2004) is beautifully written, infused with keen insights, in some ways solidly predicated upon libertarianism and praxeology,

Frank van Dun, in his learned essay on the Hobbesian roots of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD), passed by the UN General Assembly in

What follows is a comment on some of the arguments on intellectual property and blackmail presented respectively by N.

Pioneering sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a prolific and astute historian of the early American republic. His work is informed by both his classical liberalism and his understanding of economics. He authored eight major works including major biographies and thematic studies concentrating on the vital subjects of currency, banking, business cycles, foreign trade, protectionism, and democratic politics. This article discusses Classical Liberalism and Sumner's academic philosophy.

Dialogue between the so-called “capitalist” and so-called “socialist” branches of free-market libertarianism has declined.

In this article, Richard Sharvy discusses Plato’s Euthyphro.

Volume 21, Number 3 (2007)

Casual acquaintance with Ayn Rand’s ideas often involves the assumption that Rand would approve of Oliver Stone’s character Gordon Gekko (of “greed

In this article I will revise Mises and Hayek’s thesis about the proper categories of economics.

If economics is understood as being the science of the implications of voluntary and monetary exchanges among different people (Mises, 1985), the t

In this article, Professor Walter Block discusses the legalities of black mail as well as the Libertarian perspective.