Journal of Libertarian Studies

Bankruptcy law is a system of interventionary legislation which interferes with the ability of individuals freely to establish the terms of loan co

In Chapter 9 of the Poetics, Aristotle wrote that “poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statemen

One sign of the lengthy distance we have traveled away from the liberal, individualist origins of the American political order is the surprising pr

This paper will discuss the emergence and shortcomings of Yugoslav market socialism.

According to the conventional wisdom, the United Nations in effect established the state of Israel, doing so when the General Assembly voted for th

Of all the lying truths popular today, one of the most important is surely the mendacity inherent in the term “mental illness.” In addi

In America today, as throughout the West, most people fundamentally accept the “welfare state.” Republican Presidents live happily with

A paper reviewing George Smith’s article “Justice Entrepreneurship in A Free Market” by Steven Strasnick.

It will be argued in this paper that the external-benefits and public-goods arguments are incorrect and are due to a failure to consider all or the

Libertarians, if they care to examine the subject, will discover that they have a rich historical tradition in the English and American antislavery