Philosophy and Methodology
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Anarchism and the Public Goods Issue: Law, Courts, and the Police
This paper is an attempt to use what is essentially “public choice” analysis- which assumes that individuals will make “rational&
The Methodology of Profit Maximization: An Austrian Alternative
This paper has incorporated challenges to the dominant neoclassical model that were fashioned by Rothbard and, to a much lesser extent, Baumol.
Human Dignity: Reason or Desire? Natural Rights versus Human Rights
In this article, Frank van Dun discusses the differences between The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD) versus Natural Rights .
Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good by William T. de Bary and Realms of Freedom in Modern China by William D. Kirby, ed.
In this article, Leigh Kathryn Jenco reviews William T.
Herbert Spencer’s Theory of Causation
This paper traces Spencer’s theory of causation through various disciplines, with special emphasis on Spencer’s “scientific”
Might versus Right
Ludwig von Mises criticized the ‘old liberals’ for assuming the stance of a ‘perfect king’ whose only objective is to make his citizens happy.
Realism and Abstraction in Economics: Aristotle and Mises versus Friedman
Austrians have frequently criticized neoclassical economics for the unrealistic character of its assumptions. Neoclassical models are typically “idealized”;
Locke, Hobbes, and the UD: Comment on van Dun
Frank van Dun, in his learned essay on the Hobbesian roots of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD), passed by the UN General Assembly in
