Legal System

This lecture by Mark Thornton was presented at the 2012 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama. 

Jeff Deist and Joseph Becker discuss the illusion of judicial remedies for most Americans.

Drug warriors rely on bad and manipulated data to make the claim that respecting private property rights in Colorado is “terrible public policy,” w

Many modern states are little more than groupings of conquered nations. Breaking them up into smaller pieces is all for the best, and this would also ultimately lead to more free trade among nations since smaller states find it more difficult to sow the illusion of economic self-sufficiency.

Few topics in recent years have aroused as much interest among libertarians as intellectual property. What place, if any, would IP — patents, copyrights, trademarks and the like — have in a libertarian society?

Jeff Deist and Marc J. Victor discuss what's happening in Ferguson, Missouri, and our disappearing legal rights.

An expert in environmental economics, Dolan attempts to assess the Austrian contribution to this field. He finds it wanting. I must make the same assessment of Dolan. His misunderstanding of Austrian economics is only matched by his mischaracterization of free market environmentalism.

Some scholarship in the Austrian tradition today opens itself to the charge that it is textual exegesis — what did Mises really mean?

In the introduction to the proceedings of the South Royalton conference, I suggested that Austrian economics had the potential not just to survive but also to achieve what Thomas Kuhn (1962) calls a scientific revolution. Such a revolution would fundamentally change the way practitioners of a field saw the world as a new paradigm came to replace the dominant one. What can we say of the success of Austrian economics in that regard?

Lysander Spooner has many great distinctions in the history of political thought.