Journal of Libertarian Studies - Single Articles

In a recent article critical of Robert Nozick’s book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Samuel Scheffler argues that it is possible to give

The point to be emphasized in this paper is that if one starts with a different view of efficiency and market optimality, an entirely different set

The original version of this paper was delivered at the Sixth Annual Libertarian Scholars Conference, held in October 1978 at Princeton University,

The crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the Palestinian question, and the crux of the Palestinian question is: who justly owns the land of Israel

The right to a fair trial is commonly considered so central to our system of justice and so much a part of our legal heritage that to deny that peo

This paper represents the initial phase of a larger study which will present the outline of an analytical model of the structure and dynamics of th

According to the conventional wisdom, the United Nations in effect established the state of Israel, doing so when the General Assembly voted for th

In the pages of an obscure book first published in 1722, there lurks one of the finest essays on property rights ever penned.

In this paper, Christopher W. Morris attempts to defend the natural right of freedom from the premise of human autonomy.

A major point of dispute among libertarian theorists and thinkers today as always revolves around the age-old question of whether man can live in t

This paper by Antony Flew offers a critique of Karl Popper’s The Poverty of Historicism as well as E.H.

The status of children in the societal scheme proposed by John Rawls is determined by what would be the decision of persons in the original positio

In this article, Stephan Kinsella critiques George Smith’s recent article in Liberty magazine on capital punishment.

Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974) is an “invisible hand” variant of a Lockean contractaria

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

To collaborate with an author in perceiving the implied ethical problems he poses and passing a moral judgment on their solution can be, as Wayne B

The most obvious and widely shared criticism of anarchism is that it is, quite simply, impractical.

The concepts of Pareto optimality and Pareto- optimal change continue appearing in academic discussions as supposed criteria of policy and keys to

Professor Loren E.

That philosophic ideas count is no news to Austrian economists, whose economic theories rest on conceptual analyses of action and value.