Political Theory

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Peter T. Calcagno Frank Hefner

The Eastern European countries have been going through a transition phase since the liberalization of their economies with the collapse of communist regimes in the early 1990s.

Stephan Kinsella
The book is divided into two parts. The seven chapters of Part 1 are critical of statism, the view that political action is necessary, efficient, or desirable. In the four chapters of Part 2, our author somewhat tentatively proffers.
Dan Mahoney

Governments always attempt to exploit a crisis, and disasters provide a natural (no pun intended) excuse for them to do so. Their proffered “solutions” to problems(which they often create) invariably worsen those problems.

Dale Steinreich

Caplan has thought much about his topic. However, redefining policy preferences that he and probably most economists disagree with as “irrationality” is dubious 

Alfred G. Cuzán

A major point of dispute among libertarian theorists and thinkers today as always revolves around the age-old question of whether man can live in t

Jonathan Marshall

Historians increasingly recognize the important role that considerations of foreign policy played in shaping the Constitution.’ Leading Feder

Steven A. Peterson

The most obvious and widely shared criticism of anarchism is that it is, quite simply, impractical.

James Rolph Edwards

Fueled by almost frantic efforts to adjust and adapt in the face of intense inter- national competition, American industry undertook an immense cor

Anthony de Jasay

Politics asks “What is to be done?” and proposes a profusion of answers.

Richard E. Wagner

Adam Smith noted in 1776 that “What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.”