ABSTRACT: This paper begins with propositions whose truth is evident, and from them conclusions are derived whose truth has been made evident by deduction. In this paper, the foundations of the right to property are laid out, with implications for the acquisition of unowned property and the ability of a person to transfer that ownership. This includes ownership rights over one’s body. The slave is a slave because his body is owned by someone else, and that owner is not the rightful owner. Slavery is theft, and theft is also slavery.

ABSTRACT: The greatest challenge for libertarians, whether economic or otherwise, is to develop a grand historical narrative that is to counter and correct the so-called Whig theory of history that all ruling elites, everywhere and at all times, have tried to sell to the public: that is the view, that we live in the best of all times and that the grand sweep of history, notwithstanding some ups and downs, has been one of more or less steady progress.

ABSTRACT: This paper recounts the history of food inspection from a voluntaryist perspective. In England and the United States, the efforts to achieve food safety have relied upon two main methods: education and legislation. Governments did nothing that could not be done on the free market (and in many cases was already being done). Books on how to test for adulterated products at home were published. Some manufacturers voluntarily observed the highest standards of sanitation and cleanliness in their manufacturing plants.

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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy
Stephanie Kelton
New York: PublicAffairs, 2020
336 pp.

Robert P. Murphy (bobmurphy@mises.com) is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute.

Austrian Perspectives on Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Organization
Nicolai Foss, Peter Klein, and Matthew McCaffrey
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019
75 pp.

Ludvig Levasseur (ludvig.levasseur@hotmail.fr) is an assistant professor in entrepreneurship at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a junior research fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies of the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs of Indiana University.