This paper is an attempt to use what is essentially “public choice” analysis- which assumes that individuals will make “rational” choices based on self-interest- to show how the primary collective good, security, might be provided noncoercively, i.e., in the absence of a state.
In this paper, Antony Flew discusses liberty and political freedom.
In this paper, I will be dealing with various examples of individual or groups of progressive intellectuals, exulting in the triumph of their creed and their own place in it, as a result of America’s entry into World War I.
Classical Liberalism, especially of the Austrian inclination, and Libertarianism are by now recognized as the most influential research traditions of our time. While it would be superfluous here to repeat the reasons for such widespread significance, it should not be overlooked that, so far, the significance of these traditions has been recognized mainly in the academic world. There are numerous countries in which these ideas have yet to achieve the impact we wish for on public opinion and the electorate at large.
The American anti-statist intellectual tradition includes a wide variety of thinkers, from left utopians to secessionist agrarians to right anarchists. In this article, Jeffrey A. Tucker offers reviews for multiple books on Libertarianism.
It is now generally accepted by historians of economic thought that in the nineteenth century Adam Smith’s work was much overpraised for its originality and design. In an obvious reference to Smith, both Archbishop Whately and John Stuart Mill spoke of political economy having arisen as a science virtually within men’s memories. J. R. McCulloch deepened this impression by his incorrect statement that Smith had successfully combated a general belief that gold and silver were the only real sources of wealth.
This section provides short descriptions of scholarly articles expounding on libertarian theory or otherwise of special interest to libertarians. The articles listed will be drawn exclusively from non-libertarian periodicals, since specialized libertarian fora are well-known sources of libertarian theory.
[From the Journal of Libertarian Studies 12, no. 2 (Fall 1996).]
A process that drew attention at the turn of the century, and even earlier, was the movement from a bourgeois liberal society into a mass-democratic society. Not all of those who observed this process made the same judgments about it.
In two by-elections in the spring of 1996, the Front National (FN), the party of the radical right in France, helped several candidates of the left gain victory. In Sète, a southern seaport, a communist therefore was able to become mayor. It was in this manner that the leader of the FN, Jean-Marie Le Pen, responded to the rejection of his coalition offers by the Gaullists and the Liberals. At the same time, Le Pen tried to prove his slogan “neither right nor left, but French.” His calculation appeared to work.
