Issue 20.4 of the Journal of Libertarian Studies brings an especially interdisciplinary range of offerings, including contributions in history, philosophy, economic theory, and film criticism. While Murray Rothbard wore many hats – economist, historian, cultural critic – Marcus Verhaegh focuses on “ Rothbard as a Political Philosopher .” He
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire and Liberty & Power ] My copy of Ed Stringham’s anthology Anarchy and the Law just arrived in the mail. (Amazon insists that the paperback isn’t available yet, but they’re wrong .) This nearly 700-page book is quite simply the definitive collection on free-market anarchism. Its forty chapters include
The inaugural issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies , in 1977, was devoted to a symposium on Robert Nozick ’s attempt, in his landmark work Anarchy, State, and Utopia , to justify the minimal state against the case, by Murray Rothbard and others, for free-market anarchy. In the years since, the debate among libertarians as to the necessity
Issue 21.2 of the Journal of Libertarian Studies offers a variety of perspectives on constitutional interpretation, American democracy, and alternatives to state provision of law, prisons, and welfare. Defenders of the welfare state often assume that without tax-funded aid to the needy, private charity would be inadequate to fill the gap. In “
Benjamin Tucker’s journal Liberty was the foremost organ of 19th-century American individualist anarchism, and a major influence on Murray Rothbard and modern libertarianism; contributors to Liberty included such prominent free-market luminaries as Lysander Spooner, Auberon Herbert, and Vilfredo Pareto. (For background, see articles by Wendy
Lysander Spooner was the foremost legal theorist of the 19th-century American individualist anarchist movement. His 1882 open letter to Senator Bayard is fairly well-known among Spooner fans; but an 1886 sequel, A Second Letter to Thomas F. Bayard , which originally appeared in Benjamin Tucker’s anarchist journal Liberty , is much more obscure; it
Edmund Burke always claimed that his 1756 defense of anarchism, A Vindication of Natural Society , was intended satirically, and most Burke scholars have agreed. In a 1958 article , Murray Rothbard argued that Burke’s youthful anarchism was sincere, and that his later repudiation was politically motivated. But few Burke specialists were swayed.
[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
[Esta conferencia se presentó en la celebración del 25 aniversario del Instituto Mises , el 13 de octubre de 2007]. En su artículo de 1981 «El radical laissez-faire: una búsqueda del Mises histórico», Murray Rothbard expresó su descontento con lo que consideraba la interpretación predominante de Ludwig von Mises, según la cual Mises «aparecía
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