Political Theory

Writes Jeffrey Tucker: even that law which appears to be a mere guideline and a help--such as a stop sign--must ultimately be enforced by jails and violence.
 

F.A. Hayek is known for making a number of important contributions to economics and social thought. If one had to identify a single concept that captures the thrust of Hayek’s intellectual project it would be “spontaneous order.”

Martha Nussbaum’s Frontiers of Justice is one of the oddest books I have ever reviewed. Nussbaum is a well-known philosopher, and she raises some issues that are well worth our consideration; 

David Schmidtz means the title of his outstanding book literally. He does not present a tightly integrated theory of justice; rather his "contextual functionalism . . . 

Here’s a message from an environmentalist who hides under the name “Tokyo Tom.” He says it comes “off of the web page of th

The flag is Green now, instead of Red. And the lyrics are different. But the tune is still the same old tune.

Roderick T.

Josef Sima presents the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture: The Quest for a Property-Based, Misesian Econom

Robert Higgs presents the F. A. Hayek Memorial Lecture: The Complex Path of Ideological Change.

Robert Murphy presents the Lou Church Memorial Lecture in Religion and Economics: The Tension Between Economics and