Legal System

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.

The case of David H.

Julian Bond, a brilliant young leader of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), having been duly elected to the Georgia state legislatu

David H. Mitchell is a young man charged, and now convicted, in Federal Court with failing to report for induction into the armed forces.

Every clause and article of the United States Constitution has been studied, pored over, and interpreted countless times--every one, that is, but t

Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 1985)

Charles Baird discusses the impact of Government regulation on entrepreneurial discovery.

oth the establishment of property rights and their violation spring from actions: acts of appropriation and expropriation. However, in addition to a physical appearance, actions also have an internal, subjective aspect. 

The title of this symposium is Austrian Law and Economics: The Contributions of Adolf Reinach and Murray Rothbard. The second part of this title is not at all problematic;

To Serve and Protect is a breath of fresh air in the fog of mainstream recommendations concerning security, crime, and punishment. In the mainstream literature, liberals typically regard the offender as the victim of an egoistic society and conservatives typically say that the only way to reduce crime is to increase the severity of punishment. Benson brilliantly shows that the solution to the problem of criminal justice does not rest with increasing law-enforcement budgets or imposing harsher punishments, but with privatization.