New Insights on the Origins of Libertarian Theory: the English Levellers
From the session on “Foundations of Libertarian Political Philosophy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Political Theory
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The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline
Part of the Authors Forum, presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
A Rehabilitation of the Quantity Theory
From the session on “Monetary Theory and Policy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
President Coolidge and the Laffer Curve
Calvin Coolidge, on spending and taxation, was quite Rothbardian well before Rothbard. According to Amity Shlaes, “Coolidge didn’t favor tax cuts as a means to increase revenue or to buy off Democrats. He favored them because they took government, the people’s servant, out of the way of the people.”
The Economics of World Government
A transcription of a wide-ranging lecture, full of insight as well as humor, by the great Austrian economist and social theorist Hans-Hermann Hoppe, discussing the state, anarchy, democracy, monarchy, crime, security, and more. Delivered at the 2009 Mises University.
Pork: The Government’s Other White Meat
The story of pork’s decline involves the usual suspects: special interest lobbying arms and the federal government’s 30+ years of war on dietary fat.
Obama’s World of Social Justice
What is one to make of the president's diminishment of the causal connection between the productivity of individuals and the success of their pursuits?
Liberalism: Reclaiming the Term
The word <em>liberal</em> has clear and pertinent etymological roots grounded in the ideal of individual liberty.
Understanding Liberal Democracy
Nicholas Wolterstorff assails a vastly influential school of thought in a way that libertarians will find useful.
Sociological View of Obama’s World of Social Justice
What is one to make of President Obama’s celebration of the government’s role in the personal pursuits of citizens and his diminishment of the causal connection between the productivity of individuals and the success of their pursuits?
