Journal of Libertarian Studies

The market economy cannot be eradicated, but is omnipresent even if it is ostensibly outlawed.

British popular liberalism was never sufficiently committed to classical liberalism, says Martin George Holmes. When a misguided humanitarian impulse arose, it created a statist trend that ultimately destroyed the movement.

Bruce Gilley uses a policy analytic approach to study the evidence on pay equity policies, and finds that pay equity policies lack fundamental justification.

Hatim Kheir proposes a reformulation of Hoppe's argumentation ethics, premised on arbitration as the chosen means of conflict resolution, which proves the right to ownership.

Is it possible to "steal" from a thief? Sven Thommesen has argued that it is; Walter Block contends here that it is an impossibility.

Charles Amos reviews Billy Christmas's Property and Justice, finding that the author "mostly succeeds" in linking freedom to property rights. But there are two significant problems.

The unparalleled expansion of control that originated in the Enlightenment era's fiscal state could lead to the implosion of civilization. But it may be impossible for people to understand why.

In the 1840s, New York state was home to a powerful mixture of democracy, populism, and free markets. The result was lower taxes and a greatly weakened government. 

Manuel Tacanho presents a framework for understanding and ranking socioeconomic systems, and demonstrates that modern economies, even the "capitalistic" ones, are statist.

What should we think of state intervention banning the creation of artificially intelligent servants who achieve humanlike moral status? Bartlomiej Chomanski argues that criminal law should not prohibit this development.