Journal of Libertarian Studies

According to many economists we need the state to provide public goods.

This study introduces the ideas of Robert Lewis Dabney on universal education.

“Intellectuals . . . seek neither to understand the world nor to change it, but to denounce it,” so wrote Raymond Aron (1983, p.

In Kelo v.

Mixing economics and government is a dangerous idea, nearly as dangerous as mixing church and 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

In Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) and Collapse (2005), Professor Jared Diamond argues that geography and environment are the “ulti

A common argument for libertarianism of the sort associated with writers like Nozick and Rothbard is that it follows more or less directly from the

Libertarian writers including Hoppe, Hummel, and Murphy have attempted to deal with the presence of free riders in theoretical private defense cons

This paper is an attempt to combine the insights of Van Creveld (1999) concerning statism with libertarian theory in order to forge a theory of jus