Nozick’s Failed Defense of the Just State
In this paper, I argue that Nozick fails to adequately defend the claim that a just state would arise from a Lockean state of nature by a process w
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The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist’s View
In this article, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development.
Do Pessimistic Assumptions about Human Behavior Justify Government?
Is government a necessary institution?
Fallacies in the Theories of the Emergence of the State
The theory of the emergence of the State both in public choice literature and in neoclassical economics assumes that social interaction is prone to
Defining Government, Begging the Question: An Answer to Walter Block’s Reply
Walter Block has penned a response to my paper in which I argue that there isn’t much more than a verbal difference between limited government (min
From the Bosom of Communism to the Central Control of EU Planners
Since the end of the Second World War, the issue of European integration has taken on ever-greater economic and political importance.
Book Review of Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty by Randy E. Barnett
n this article, J.H. Huebert reviews Randy E. Barnett’s Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty.
The Kelo Decision and the Fourteenth Amendment
In the Kelo decision, the city of New London, Connecticut, exercised the power of eminent domain to seize the private property of Susette Kelo and
The Territorial Assumption: Rationale for Conquest
The classic definition of the State involves two elements: a coercive monopolization of defense services over a given geographic area, and the impo
All Government is Excessive: A Rejoinder to Dwight Lee’s “In Defense of Excessive Government”
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
