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In this note I will argue that social contract theories aimed at establishing norms for personal and community life are inadequate.

Can anyone take seriously the question posed by the title of this paper? History clearly reveals the following facts.

The right of one person necessarily entails the obligation of another person or persons.

The twentieth century libertarian movement has experienced an ongoing debate between the minarchists, the advocates of “limited” govern

Murray Rothbard dismisses Adam Smith’s contribution to economics as “dubious,” and he lists many specific Smithian lapses.

“We are passing through the most serious moment in the history of the world since the year 410 A.D.-the year of the fall of the Roman Empire

It is now generally accepted by historians of economic thought that in the nineteenth century Adam Smith’s work was much overpraised for its

It is not actually possible to describe what a system of privately produced law and order would be like in modem society because one cannot describ

Perhaps the best way of writing an introduction for this most welcome French translation of Ethics of Liberty is to discuss what has happe