Scott A. Boykin

Latest work

Spencer and Hayek’s Liberal Evolutionism, and Why It Should Omit the Nation-State

07/24/2021 Journal of Libertarian Studies Scott A. Boykin

ABSTRACT: Herbert Spencer and F.A. Hayek developed bodies of liberal political thought that stress the importance of evolutionary social adaptation as a type of spontaneous order. An evolutionary...

Hayek on Spontaneous Order and Constitutional Design

03/14/2010 Scott A. Boykin

Recorded March 13, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

The Ethics of Secession

01/08/2009 Scott A. Boykin

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held at the College of Charleston in South Carolina; 7-9 April 1995.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.