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Twilight of Authority

Big GovernmentPhilosophy and Methodology

06/01/1975Books
Alberto Mingardi writes: Professor Nisbet explores in depth two surprisingly related issues, which he has yet touched in other works such as the famous The Quest for Community: first, the aggressive habits of power, and second, the relationship between the decline of traditional morality and rise...
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Authors Panel

Book ReviewsBooms and BustsEducationStrategy

10/09/2018Audio/Video
Presented at the Mises Institute's 2018 Supporters Summit in Auburn, Alabama.
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Authority: H.L.A. Hart and the Problem with Legal Positivism

Legal SystemInterventionism

07/30/2014The Journal of Libertarian Studies
The major claim in this paper is that there is a distinct ambiguity in the way in which H. L. A. Hart employs the concept of authority in his account of the nature of law. It is a flaw in Hart's thesis that surprisingly few philosophers of law have detected. Perhaps this is because they share his...
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Chapter 7: Obedience to Authority

Online Text Chapter from Liberty, Dicta & Force

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram (1933–84)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire (1694–1778)

Author’s Preface

U.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

12/30/2015Audio/Video
Narrated by Millian Quinteros. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger.
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Misesian Ownership and Coasian Authority in Hayekian Settings: The Case of the Knowledge Economy

Production Theory

07/30/2014Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Austrian insights are useful for not only interpreting recent claims, but also for understanding their reach. In particular, Misesian insights are helpful here
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Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

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Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., is founder and chairman of the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, and editor of LewRockwell.com....

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