George H. Smith

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Justice Entrepreneurship Revisited: Reply to Critics

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies George H. Smith

George H. Smith responds to Randy Barnett, Robert Formaini, and Steven Strasnick’s comments on his paper “Justice Entrepreneurship in a Free Market.” Volume 3, Number 4 (1979)

Herbert Spencer’s Theory of Causation

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies George H. Smith

This paper traces Spencer’s theory of causation through various disciplines, with special emphasis on Spencer’s “scientific” system of ethics — something he regarded as the crowning achievement of his...

William Wollaston on Property Rights

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies George H. Smith

In the pages of an obscure book first published in 1722, there lurks one of the finest essays on property rights ever penned. The book is The Religion of Nature Delineated, by William Wollaston. Since...

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