Free Markets

The recently edited Festschrift in honor of Pascal Salin is a highly varied and disparate collection of contributions by colleagues, admir

Immigration. The very use of the word is telling: since every immigrant is also an emigrant, why is the first term more frequently used?

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