Journal of Libertarian Studies

Students and admirers of Adam Smith will welcome Edwin West’s reappraisal of the relationship between Smith and Cantillon.

In this paper I will attempt to analyze laws limiting emigration, migration, and immigration from the libertarian perspective.

Few years in the history of the world have been as significant as the years 1939-1941.

Was Percy Shelley, the great English Romantic poet, a socialist?

If law exists only where there are state-backed courts and codes, then every primitive society was lawless.

A process that drew attention at the turn of the century, and even earlier, was the movement from a bourgeois liberal society into a mass-democrati

Having adopted a profoundly radical creed at odds with the ruling dogmas of their day, what did Lao-tzu, La Boétie, Quesnay, Turgot, and James Mill offer as a strategy for social change in the direction of liberty?

This paper seeks to present Mises’s views on cultural questions as well as his belief that certain cultural institutions are buttressed by a

The violent breakup of Yugoslavia illustrates the growing difficulty of theorizing about the future of multi-ethnic states.

The Mises Institute is honored to be taking over the public action of The Journal of Libertarian Studies, one of the most important schola