Introduction Objective Value Value Subjectivism Positive Ethics The Goal of Happiness Rights and Utility [ This lecture was given at Mises University 2005. ] When I was given the title “Ethical Assumptions of Economics,” my first thought was to say, “economics has no ethical assumptions.” But then I thought this might not be the best way to earn
Issue 20.2 of the Journal of Libertarian Studies is even more filled than usual with revisionism and controversy! Take a look: In The Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith maintained that “the sovereign has only three duties to attend to.” The first two are national defense and the administration of domestic justice; then, famously, comes the third
Note: A rough 2003 draft of this article was mistakenly published in Reason Papers no. 28 (Spring 2006) instead of the finished 2006 version. This is the correct, final version. The morality of warfare is an issue that has long divided libertarians. The spectrum of libertarian opinion on the subject ranges all the way from Leonard Peikoff, who
[This talk was delivered on October 27, 2006, at “Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom,” the Mises Institute Supporter’s Summit. It is available in MP3 audio from Mises Media .] Today I wish to consider a certain argument for empire that comes not from liberty’s enemies but from its friends — though on this issue misguided friends, in my opinion. I shall
[This talk was presented at the Mises Institute 25th Anniversary Celebration on October 13, 2007.] In his 1981 article “The Laissez-Faire Radical: A Quest for the Historical Mises,” Murray Rothbard expressed his dissatisfaction with what he saw as the prevailing interpretation of Ludwig von Mises, according to which Mises was “made to appear a
“There are many, many left-wingers whose primary motivation for their left-wing political stance is the very libertarian impulse to protect people who are being pushed around.” How can Austrolibertarians reach the Left? Well, it depends which Left. There are some left-wingers whom I call the “aristocratic Left,” and whom I despair of reaching.
[ Justice and Its Surroundings • By Anthony de Jasay • Liberty Fund, 2002 • 321 pages. This review originally appeared in the Independent Review , 2003.] Justice and Its Surroundings (the “surroundings” are concepts closely associated with justice and sometimes confused with it, such as equality or the state ) is an unusually rich, provocative,
Nacida Alisa Rosenbaum en San Petesburgo, Rusia, el 2 de febrero de 1905, Rand llegaría a ser una de las principales voces del siglo XX a favor de la libertad humana. Después de vivir la Revolución Rusa y el caos económico y la represión política que trajo (acontecimientos que luego reflejaría en Los que vivimos ) Rand huyó de la Unión Soviética
El fascismo se diferencia de sus primos cercanos, el comunismo y el conservadurismo aristocrático, en varios puntos importantes. Entender estas diferencias resulta equivalente a ver cómo el liberalismo clásico ofrece una visión completamente distinta de la organización social y económica, una perspectiva que se aparta radicalmente de las visiones
[ Conferencia en Memoria de Rothbard, Austrian Scholars Conference 2006 ] Es un honor y un privilegio para mí pronunciar la Conferencia en Memoria de Rothbard, aquí en el Instituto Mises, el centro mundial del pensamiento rothbardiano. Cuando leí por primera vez La ética de la libertad y Por una nueva libertad, de Murray Rothbard, en mi época
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