Journal of Libertarian Studies - Single Articles

F. A. Hayek on Liberty and Tradition
by John Gray

Liechtenstein has long been recognized as one of the most free and prosperous countries in the world.

Much of the resistance to libertarian anarchic proposals stems from a genuine inability on the part of one’s audience to entertain such proposals as serious alternatives to the status quo.

For many years in London, firefighting was provided privately by insurance companies. Oddly enough, the Americans rejected this model for the far-more-politicized fire department model we know today.

The radicals advocated the right of the slaves to rebel, either individually or en masse, and to resort to violence in their own self-defense, and to call on those outside the slave system to come to their assistance.

Regulation is simply the way in which self-interested public officials provide benefits to self-interested individuals who form interest groups. This is as true in land use as in anything else.

The Anti-Corn-Law League was the best financed and the most highly organized political pressure group that Britain has ever witnessed.

If we deconstruct the modern nation-state, we shall reduce the scope of government power, the importance of voting and the extent of social conflict.

ABSTRACT: The impact of interest rates on investment choices is a key element in both Keynesian and Austrian theories of the business cycle. Fuller (2013) compares the Keynesian Marginal Efficiency of Capital approach to the Austrian Net Present Value approach, claiming that the two give different rankings of investment projects. This comment provides examples to show that this is only true if factor prices are held constant. If factor prices reflect the discounted present value of the project, then the different rankings between the approaches vanishes. This result further highlights a fundamental difference between the Austrian and Keynesian views: factor price stickiness. This difference in assumptions drives the opposing views of monetary policy.

In this paper, Antony Flew discusses liberty and political freedom.

Volume 9, Number 1 (1989)

Some years ago in Modern Age (Winter, 1958-59). in a poem dedicated to Robert A.

This paper contends that Adam Smith meant what he said; human nature is ennobled by the cultivation of its lands, the advancement of its manufactur

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Were a government to demand the sacrifice of 46,700 citizens’ each year, there is no doubt that an outraged public would revolt.

The period which encompasses, roughly, the years from 1836 to 1870, was the critical one for political economy as conceived by Adam Smith.

There are those to whom the question of whether to privatize the nation’s police forces is mere academic whimsy—a question of consequence only to t

The interest of scholars in the application of mathematics to the social sciences is particularly lively at the present time.

In this paper, I will be dealing with various examples of individual or groups of progressive intellectuals, exulting in the triumph of their creed

A lecture delivered at the Gold and Monetary Conference, New Orleans, La., November 10, 1977, by F.A.