The Journal of Libertarian Studies was founded by Murray N. Rothbard in 1977 and is the premiere venue for the advancement of libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, the individualist society, and non-interventionism as the first principle of political theory and practice.
The Private Production of Defence
Among the most popular and consequential beliefs of our age is the belief in collective security.
Revisiting “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?”
Three decades ago, I published “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?” The answer I gave is that we do not, that government only substitutes one ki
The Law of the Somalis: A Stable Foundation for Economic Development in the Horn of Africa by Michael van Notten; Spencer Heath MacCallum, ed.
In this article, Nortbert Lennartz reviews Michael van Notten’s The Law of the Somalis: A Stable Foundation for Economic Development in t
Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime, Alexander Tabarrok, ed.
In this article, Daniel J.
Symposium: Chicago versus the Free Market, Introduction
Mention the term “free-market economics” and many people’s thoughts immediately turn to the Chicago School, the academic home of nine Nobel prize w
The Kelo Decision and the Fourteenth Amendment
In the Kelo decision, the city of New London, Connecticut, exercised the power of eminent domain to seize the private property of Susette Kelo and
The Limits of Jacksonian Liberalism: Individualism, Dissent, and the Gospel of Andrew According to Lysander Spooner
In 1844 Massachusetts resident Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) advertised in the public press the establishment of the American Letter Mail Company.
Book Review: Leland B. Yeager, Ethics as Social Science
In this article, Robert P. Murphy reviews Leland B.
Democracy in America and the Possibilities for Law without the State
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America raises a particularly provocative series of issues which challenge some of the basic assumpti
Book Review: Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
In this article, Gabriel Calzada Álvarez offers a review of Hernando de Soto's The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.
The Costs of Public Income Redistribution and Private Charity
Most academic participants in the ongoing debate over income redistribution are aware that it is not possible, ever, for government to tax one set
Editorial to Symposium Issue on Studies in Mutualist Political Economy
An introduction to the 20th Volume of the Journal of Libertarian Studies by Robert T. Long.
The Impossibility of the State
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