James P. Philbin

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The Political Economy of the Antifederalists

02/02/2018 Journal of Libertarian Studies James P. Philbin

Journal of Libertarian Studies 11, no. 1 (1994) The eighteenth-century opponents of the U.S. Constitution have been derided by some historians as politically naive and intellectually inferior to their...

Austrian Perspective on Some Leading Jacksonian Monetary Theorists

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies James P. Philbin

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the monetary philosophies of some of the leading Jacksonian economic theorists, as revealed during their opposition to the Second Bank of the United States. The...

Mises Takes the Prize

07/19/1999 Mises Daily James P. Philbin

Why the achievements of Ludwig von Mises have been unjustly overlooked by academia. (An essay by James P. Philbin.)

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

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