Journal of Libertarian Studies

The isolationist tradition in America, as it was manifested from 1939 to 1941, was based on two fundamental doctrines: avoidance of war in Europe and unimpaired freedom of action.

Students and admirers of Adam Smith will welcome Edwin West’s reappraisal of the relationship between Smith and Cantillon.

If law exists only where there are state-backed courts and codes, then every primitive society was lawless.

In this article, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe discusses immigration, natural order, and private property.

Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)

What follows is a comment on some of the arguments on intellectual property and blackmail presented respectively by N.

In this article, medieval thinkers will be explored and how they dealt with these ideas, and developed them into the concept that “political legiti

According to many economists we need the state to provide public goods.

Mixing economics and government is a dangerous idea, nearly as dangerous as mixing church and government.

Libertarian writers including Hoppe, Hummel, and Murphy have attempted to deal with the presence of free riders in theoretical private defense cons

Volume 1, Number 3 (1977)

What this essay will attempt to show is that while, during the 19th century, the prohibition of sexual immoralit