Journal of Libertarian Studies

Did you ever hear the phrase, “With friends like that, who needs enemies?” This aphorism applies to several “defenses” of the free enterprise syste

Bankruptcy law is a system of interventionary legislation which interferes with the ability of individuals freely to establish the terms of loan co

It is taken for granted by most economists and political philosophers that John Locke was in some sense a precursor of the labor theories of value

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

The central ideas of contemporary libertarianism have taken many centuries to evolve.

Ayn Rand occupies a curious position among American novelists: Both her friendly and her hostile critics scarcely regard her as a novelist at all.

The American anti-statist intellectual tradition includes a wide variety of thinkers, from left utopians to secessionist agrarians to right anarchists.

Libertarians tend to focus on two important units of analysis: the individual and the state.

In this article, Robert P. Murphy reviews Leland B.

This article begins by contrasting the distinctive methodological starting points of Weber and Mises, and proceeds to review and discuss each think