Roderick T. Long

Articles

Review of Ethics as Social Science: the Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation, by Leland B. Yeager

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Roderick T. Long

Volume 6, No. 1 (Spring 2003) Ethics and economics need to learn from one another. But what is it, precisely, that needs to be learned? Here Yeager’s answer is more controversial; he defends what...

Realism and Abstraction in Economics: Aristotle and Mises versus Friedman

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Roderick T. Long

Volume 9, No. 3 (Fall 2006) Austrians have frequently criticized neoclassical economics for the unrealistic character of its assumptions. Neoclassical models are typically “idealized”; that is, they...

Editorial to Symposium: Market, Anarchism, Pro and Con

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Roderick T. Long

An introduction by Roderick T. Long to the 21st volume of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. As mentioned above, this issue focuses on the anarchy/minarchy debate. Volume 21, Number 1 (2007)

Publications

Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections

07/20/2005 Roderick T. Long

This short monograph is from an informal talk presented at the 2004 Mises University, and transcribed by Revi N. Nair.

Media

Austro-Libertarian Themes in Three Prague Authors: Capek, Kafka, and Hašek

03/22/2012 Roderick T. Long

Session on Literature and Liberty. Recorded March 10, 2012, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

5. An Aristotelian Ethics of Virtue

06/28/2006 Roderick T. Long

Everyone has an ultimate end. What should the content of this end be? No concept of happiness exists without integrating the interest of others. Being an agent is being a living organism. Living organisms have needs. Aristotle feels humans are neither beasts nor God. Morality requires a minimum of prudence (self) and benevolence (others).

American Revolution and the Spectre of Anarchy: The Hamilton-Seabury and Price-Lind Debates

04/21/2009 Roderick T. Long

Roderick Long presents American Revolution and the Spectre of Anarchy: The Hamilton-Seabury and Price-Lind Debates. From the 2009 ASC Panel: Topics on Constitutional Order.

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