Patents and copyrights are forms of immaterial “property” that grant to their owners exclusive control over the production and sale of a specified product—a literary or artistic work in the case of copyrights, an invention or productive process in the case of patents. Though these concepts are subsumed under the broader heading of “intellectual property,” they are not completely analogous and cannot always be justified with the same arguments.

Volume 15, Number 4 (2001)

In this article, Professor Thomas E. Woods Jr. offers a review of Ronald Steel’s Walter Lippmann and the American Century.

Volume 15, Number 4 (2001)

In this article, Professor Robert P. Murphey offers a review of Butler Shaffer’s In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition.

Volume 15, Number 4 (2001)

What should be the attitude of classical liberals toward nationalist aspiration and sentiment? Should classical liberals value and cultivate these attitudes in themselves and others—at least in their ostensibly less xenophobic and aggressive forms? Or should they look on all forms and manifestations of nationalism as nothing more than atavistic remnants of pre-modernity? That is, should nationalism be viewed as an outmoded form of attachment which, ideally, should be expunged from humanity?

Originally published as “European Unification as the New Frontier of Collectivism: The Case for Competitive Federalism and Polycentric Law.”

The European Union is a continental movement with an American pedigree. The phenomena of European “integration” and “harmonization” (innocuous terms for a pernicious enterprise) re-enact the evolution of the American Union: the judicial conversion of sovereign states into municipalities and, concomitantly, the homogenization-centralization of political life by a stratified agent turned superior. The commonalities between the American and European unions reflect the recurrent dynamics by which autonomy is undermined.

Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)

Since the end of the Second World War, the issue of European integration has taken on ever-greater economic and political importance. Upon communism’s collapse in Eastern and Central Europe, a special new dimension was added to the process. The idea of building a united and integrated Europe by abolishing artificial state frontiers and creating conditions under which Europeans might live peaceful, happy lives remains attractive.

The problem, however, is that the Europe now emerging is far removed from this grand and noble idea.

Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)

In this article, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe discusses immigration, natural order, and private property.

Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)

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.

Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)

In this article, Robert P. Murphy reviews Leland B. Yeager’s Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation.

Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)