The Consolidation of State Power via Reconstruction: 1865-1890
All radical schemes to reconstruct the South entailed some more or less permanent expansion of central state activity and expenditures.
Political Theory
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The Constitutional Right of Secession in Political Theory and History
Following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, smaller, independent, ethnically-based political entities emerged.
Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good by William T. de Bary and Realms of Freedom in Modern China by William D. Kirby, ed.
In this article, Leigh Kathryn Jenco reviews William T.
Rejoinder to Holcombe on the Inevitability of Government
Holcombe (2004) argued that government was inevitable. In Block (2005) I maintained that this institution was not unavoidable.
Constitutional Economics and The Calculus of Consent
James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock are widely credited with creating the Public Choice School.
Reply to Gottfried
In this article, Frank van Dun offers a retort to Paul Gottfried’s critique.
Volume 16, Number 3 (2002)
Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer
In a recent issue of The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Frank van Dun commented on my views on intellectual property, and on Walter Block
It’s the Economy, Stupid: Rudy Giuliani, the Wall Street Prosecutions, and the Recession of 1990-91
Almost anyone who was of age and living in the United States during the 1980s will remember that it was given the moniker of “Decade of Greed.” As
Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks its Own Laws by Andrew Napolitano
In this article, William L. Anderson reviews Judge Andrew P.
If Men Were Angels: The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-Government
Perhaps everyone will agree that if we were all angels, no state would be necessary, and if angels were the governors, they would require neither i
