Journal of Libertarian Studies

Arguments based on hypothetical consent are widely used in legal, political, and moral philosophy.

Surveys of libertarian-leaning individuals in America show that the intellectual champions they venerate the most are Thomas Jefferson and Ayn Rand

In this article, Laurence M. Vance reviews Clint Bolick’s Voucher Wars: Waging The Legal Battle Over School Choice.

When Murray Rothbard founded the Journal of Libertarian Studies in 1977, publishing opportunities for libertarian scholarship, especially radical  libertarian scholarship, were even rarer than they are today. Certainly the intellectual climate was beginning to improve. New books and conferences, along with the Nobel prizes for Friedrich A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, had all combined to give broadly libertarian approaches a higher academic profile. In Rothbard's vision, libertarianism represented not simply a set of policy proposals, but a wide ranging and diverse body of social theory articulating an integrated understanding of human agency and social interaction underlying such policy proposals. That's why it's the Journal of Libertarian Studies and not just the journal of libertarianism.

Lookism is prejudice toward people because of their appearance.

In an article published in this journal, Walter Block (2002, pp.

Susette Kelo would like to continue living in her newly-restored, waterfront home of seven years.

Kevin Carson’s New Book Studies in Mutualist Political Economy centers on the incredible claim, self-contradictory on its face, that

In this article, Robert Bass reviews Tibor Machan’s Ayn Rand.

Volume 20, Number 2 (2006)

The theory of the emergence of the State both in public choice literature and in neoclassical economics assumes that social interaction is prone to