Journal of Libertarian Studies

This section provides short descriptions of scholarly articles expounding on libertarian theory or otherwise of special interest to libertarians.

The idea of secession has been around ever since there have been governments.

If, as Richard O.

In this article, Enrico Colombatto reviews Joseph E. Stiglitz’ Globalization and Its Discontents.

Randy Holcombe’s “Government: unnecessary but Inevitable” (2004) is an interesting and challenging, but ultimately fallacious, essay on

One might ask: why has there been so little consideration of nonviolent resistance among libertarians?

Casual acquaintance with Ayn Rand’s ideas often involves the assumption that Rand would approve of Oliver Stone’s character Gordon Gekko (of “greed

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

Robert Nozick’s widely hailed Anarchy, State, and Utopia has been analyzed primarily in terms of the arguments he engages in with his fellow

In no other field is the crucial importance of theory to history more obvious than in the field of economic history.