Philosophy and Methodology

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Here is a test case to separate decentralist libertarians, who believe that divided sovereignty is the best long-run protection for liberty, from t

I don’t mean to pick on the US Postal Service, but I must admit to a strong (but not yet clinical) obsession with monopolies — especially tho

Most years, the millions of last minute tax filers make April 15 National Procrastination Day.

F.A. Hayek is known for making a number of important contributions to economics and social thought. If one had to identify a single concept that captures the thrust of Hayek’s intellectual project it would be “spontaneous order.”

Martha Nussbaum’s Frontiers of Justice is one of the oddest books I have ever reviewed. Nussbaum is a well-known philosopher, and she raises some issues that are well worth our consideration; 

Here’s a message from an environmentalist who hides under the name “Tokyo Tom.” He says it comes “off of the web page of th

David Schmidtz means the title of his outstanding book literally. He does not present a tightly integrated theory of justice; rather his "contextual functionalism . . . 

Robert Higgs presents War, Fear, and Trembling at the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe presents The Economics and Ethics of Private Property at the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference.