In the last sixty or eighty years in every country eminent citizens have become alarmed about the rising tide of totalitarianism. They wanted to preserve freedom and Western civilization and to organize an ideological and political movement to stop the progress on the road to serfdom. All these endeavors failed utterly; the parties and
Stephan Kinsella lp-3-1 Mac OS X 10.6.6 Quartz PDFContext Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. “Of Private, Common, and Public Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization . ” Libertarian Papers 3, no. 1 (2011):
Many years after the Great Depression and World War II, controversy continues to swirl as scholars, pundits, and ordinary citizens look back at the watershed events of the 1930s and 1940s. Economists and economic historians have assessed the economy’s condition during these momentous years primarily with reference to the usual macroeconomic
James Rolph Edwards A strong antitrust policy has long been a cornerstone of progressive belief, and progressive U.S. Presidents such as Teddy Roosevelt actively pursued antitrust prosecutions. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, however, antitrust law and policy have been increasingly challenged by a resurgent group of libertarian
Libertarians believe that reducing the size of government increases total welfare. Some believe that welfare would be maximized by eliminating government entirely. Whether shrinking government would be beneficial, however, depends not only on the level of welfare that could be achieved with no government, but on the path of welfare over
Volume 1, Article 32 (2009) Gold is the child of Zeus. —Pindar, circa 500 BCE What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. —Confucius, circa 500 BCE I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least.” Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—”That government is best which governs not at
1. Introduction: Law and Psychology The question of the connection between law and psychology can be answered in the most different of ways. It should be emphasized that the existence of the law presupposes specific psychological conditions and human relationships within which the law arose, and that it is undoubtedly a task of psychology to
Volume 1, Article 37 (2009) Whilst some defenders of the minimal, limited state or government hold that the state is “a necessary evil,” others would consider that this claim that the state is evil concedes too much ground to anarchists. In this article I intend to discuss the views of some who believe that government is a good thing, and their
Karl Widerquist has recently argued that libertarians face a dilemma. The dilemma is that, if Widerquist’s arguments go through, libertarians can either “remain committed to natural property rights and drop their commitment to the moral necessity of a libertarian state or maintain their commitment to a libertarian state and drop or amend their
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.