Philosophy and Methodology

The differing attitudes of Plato and Rousseau toward specialization and the division of labor color their views on who should formulate policy on p

What should be a free country’s policy toward foreigners who would wish to live there?

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. 

It is obvious from his review of my book that J.H. Huebert holds me in genuine high esteem.

Libertarianism has been widely misunderstood, and the present essay under review is no exception.

One of the most salutary results of the recent revival of scholarly interest in the intellectual traditions of classical liberalism is that F.A.

In “Government Regulation and Intergenerational Justice,” Rolf Sartorius argues that some government regulation is justified in order t

Confronted with the limitations of formalism, many economists have adopted alternative epistemological approaches which are supposed to favor a better understanding of economic phenomena. Among those, hermeneutics has enjoyed a certain success. Hermeneutics is a general theory of understanding based on the interpretation of an external reality testifying to an internal subjective reality. In economics, the interpretive act (or the process of theorization) consists in the ongoing dialogic confrontation between what contemporary economists know and what the individuals under scrutiny express of their own interpretation of the world.

Dialogue between the so-called “capitalist” and so-called “socialist” branches of free-market libertarianism has declined.

Kinsella and Tinsley (2004) is beautifully written, infused with keen insights, in some ways solidly predicated upon libertarianism and praxeology,