Journal of Libertarian Studies

(Barthelemy) Charles (Pierre Joseph) Dunoyer (1786-1862) was born on May 20, 1786 at Caremac in ancient Tureme (Quercy, Cahorsin), the present-day

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

The works of Shackle are a mixed bag.

In the pages of an obscure book first published in 1722, there lurks one of the finest essays on property rights ever penned.

It is taken for granted by most economists and political philosophers that John Locke was in some sense a precursor of the labor theories of value

This paper will present a radical libertarian analysis of the War of 1861-65; as such, it will disagree in many ways with existing interpretations.

To most historians, and to much of the general public as well, the name of the late Lawrence Dennis has long been associated with American “f

When analyzing election results, the Libertarian Party and other elements of the movement focus usually on the LP’s current political star in

The differing attitudes of Plato and Rousseau toward specialization and the division of labor color their views on who should formulate policy on p