Free Markets

Muetze Hellmer is a former student of mine at Loyola University New Orleans.

When I first received Milton Friedman’s letter in response to my article “Hayek’s Road to Serfdom” I did not realize it would lead to more.

The classic definition of the State involves two elements: a coercive monopolization of defense services over a given geographic area, and the impo

In this article, Steven Yates reviews Tibor Machan’s The Passion for Liberty and Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature&#8

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

Libertarian writers including Hoppe, Hummel, and Murphy have attempted to deal with the presence of free riders in theoretical private defense cons

This is part II of a two-part paper in which a critique is offered of the private right to free incorporation from a classical liberal or libertari

According to the negative homesteading theory, one can come to own misery—a state of being, or about to be, attacked—which one cannot legitimately

“Coase, get your cattle off my land.” –Walter Block 

Although the present paper is dedicated to a highly critical examination of Hoppe’s contributions to the field of immigration, we readily acknowled