Journal of Libertarian Studies - Single Articles

Moral relativism, a theory typically beclouded by inexact formulations and confusions with cultural relativism, has recently been defended lucidly

Joseph R. Stromberg recounts the life of John Taylor as well as his political contributions.

Volume 6, Number 1 (1982)

This paper establishes what Hayek’s evolutionary theory is, and argues (by reference to the preconditions of Darwinian natural selection) tha

Various members of the academic community have attempted to attack Murray Rothbard’s political and economic theories. One attempt made by H.

This paper is an essay on the coordination of economic activities.

That the modern reform mentality has been imbued with a statist philosophy leading to imperialism and war is perhaps no surprise to libertarians.

There exists today in Anglo-American economics a veritable “conspiracy of silence” regarding the works and achievements of the French L

Central planning and state control are often cast aside as inferior replacements to far more efficient and humane voluntary market transactions.

The nature of political discourse has been significantly altered by the events of recent history, among which has been an accelerating shift of gov

In America today, as throughout the West, most people fundamentally accept the “welfare state.” Republican Presidents live happily with

Historians have examined many factors concerning American isolationism in the years 1939 to 1941.

One sign of the lengthy distance we have traveled away from the liberal, individualist origins of the American political order is the surprising pr

As every honest man knows, crime doesn’t pay. Our main problem is that apparently no one has yet told the criminals.

This paper will present a radical libertarian analysis of the War of 1861-65; as such, it will disagree in many ways with existing interpretations.

To state with precision and force the economic and moral imperative of the free market has been of the utmost concern to some of civilization&#8217

The Progressive Era and the eighteen-nineties immediately preceding it have probably been the foci of more superior scholarship than any other peri

The “free rider problem,” arising from the fact that an individual may be able to obtain the benefits of a good without contributing to

In his seminal work, “The Problem of Social Cost,” Coase held that in cases of private property right disputes involving what have been

The growth of government during this century has attracted the attention of many scholars interested in explaining that growth and in proposing way

In Chapter 9 of the Poetics, Aristotle wrote that “poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statemen