Journal of Libertarian Studies 4, no. 1 (Winter 1980)

05/26/2020 Journal of Libertarian Studies Murray N. Rothbard

Boom and Bust: The Political Economy of Economic Disorder
by Richard E. Wagner

Libertarians and the Authoritarian Personality
by J. J. Ray

Specialization and the Division of Labor in the Social Thought of Plato and Rousseau
by Williams M. Evers

A Groundwork for Rights: Man’s Natural End
by Douglas B. Rasmussen

Natural Right in the Political Philosophy of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
by William O. Reichert

Pareto Optimality, External Benefits and Public Goods: A Subjectivist Approach
by Barry P. Brownstein

Monopoly and Competition in Money
by James Rolph Edwards

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