Editor’s Remarks
An introduction by Roderick T. Long to the 19th Volume of the Journal of Libertarian Studies.
Rothbard’s Time on the Left
Murray Rothbard devoted his life to the struggle for liberty, but, as anyone who has made a similar commitment realizes, it is never exactly clear how that devotion should translate into action. Consequently, Rothbard formed strategic alliances with widely different groups throughout his career. Perhaps the most intriguing of these alliances is the one Rothbard formed with the New Left in the mid-1960s, especially considering their antithetical economic views.
Volume 19, Number 1 (2005)
Anderson, Hazlitt, and the Quantity Theory of Money
Volume 19, Number 1 (2005)
Henry Hazlitt, Economist and journalist, played a decisive role in the postwar presentation and dissemination of Austrian ideas in America. Not only was he Ludwig von Mises’s friend and editor, he was also a book reviewer at the New York Times and (later) columnist for Newsweek. From these positions, he brought broad attention to the works and ideas of Mises and Hayek to an English-speaking world that might have otherwise tended to disregard the writings of these Austrian exiles as coming from another time in another land.
Merchants of Death Revisited: Armaments, Bankers, and the First World War
The year 2004 marks the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Engelbrecht and Hanighen’s Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry, a book that made it into the general consciousness of most thinking Americans by the mid-twentieth century. The stark language of the title no doubt contributed to its fame. Moreover, the theme of arms merchants pushing for war is both easily understood and easily discussed, even by those who have not read it.
Volume 19, Number 1 (2005)
Rejoinder to Caplan on Bayesian Economics
In the present article, it is my goal to critically comment on Caplan’s most recent argument. The next section is devoted to Probability and Science, followed by a section on Synthetic a priori and Common Sense, and then a section on Caplan’s Bayesian Cure.
Volume 19, Number 1 (2005)
Book Review of Benjamin Constant: Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
In this article, Gary Galles reviews Benjamin Constant’s Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments.
Volume 19, Number 1 (2005)
Book Reviews: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order by Rasmussen and Den Uyl; Objectivism: The Philosopy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Piekoff
In this article, David Gordon reviews Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff, and Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order by Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl.
Common Property in Anarcho-Capitalism
The existence of common property in anarcho-capitalism naturally points to the interesting policy question of how this common property would be controlled and maintained. While one might speculate on the issue, this paper stops short of any hard-and-fast conclusions on this point, focusing instead on how common property comes into being in anarcho-capitalism.
Volume 19, Number 2 (2005)
Is Lookism Unjust?: The Ethics of Aesthetics and Public Policy Implications
Lookism is prejudice toward people because of their appearance. It has been receiving increasing attention, and it is becoming an important equal-opportunity issue. People we find attractive are given preferential treatment and people we find unattractive are denied opportunities.
Volume 19, Number 2 (2005)
The Habermasian Moment
Among spokemen for the Post-Marxist Left, Jürgen Habermas (1923–) may be the most prominent and, in his own country, the most honored. An advocate of “militant” democracy since the 1950s, he has defended his persuasion in the international press, in multiple books and articles, and as an academic lecturer.
