Journal of Libertarian Studies

Two objection have recently been made to the model of the free market without government.

Many of the problem areas in the law of contracts stem from the historical fact that the law of contracts has been fashioned out of material that does not fit together logically. Some jurists view contracts as conventions serving to secure people's expectations. These jurists, who support their approach by invoking the allied philosophical traditions of utilitarianism and pragmatism, have tried to make the law of contracts a device to protect parties who rely on promised advantages. Therefore, these jurists want law-enforcement processes to make people live up to the expectations they arouse in others.

In his seminal work, “The Problem of Social Cost,” Coase held that in cases of private property right disputes involving what have been

Libertarianism -the political philosophy based on the concept of individual rights -seems to be an inherently clear, unambiguous position.

While many minimal state theorists, such as Ayn Rand, have found in anarchism an unacceptable vehicle for the conveyance of natural rights libertar

In legal philosophy there is perhaps no older, nor deeper, conflict than that which exists between legal positivists and natural law advocates.

Various members of the academic community have attempted to attack Murray Rothbard’s political and economic theories. One attempt made by H.

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This paper will be primarily concerned with identification and documentation of the educational viewpoints espoused by the European anarchists of t

The present article is a slightly expanded version of one of the critiques of Professor Laurence S.