Big Government

The point to be emphasized in this paper is that if one starts with a different view of efficiency and market optimality, an entirely different set

Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974) is an “invisible hand” variant of a Lockean contractaria

There are those to whom the question of whether to privatize the nation’s police forces is mere academic whimsy—a question of consequence only to t

This paper will examine the CIA’s role in the international power struggle by briefly outlining the formation and early history of the CIA, t

The American Revolution restored private and local control over goods such as alcohol and tobacco, but since the period of the Early Republic, the prohibitionist agenda has, with few deviations, continued on this trend of increasing central control.

Given Dwight Lee’s stalwart free enterprise credentials, it is more than passingly curious that the title of his 1998 Presidential Address to the S

According to many economists we need the state to provide public goods.

In response to my article, “Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable” (2004), Walter Block (2005) offers a detailed refutation of my argument on the

This is the most important book on public policy to be published in a long time.

For many libertarians, the thesis of self-ownership is the foundation of their political philosophy.