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The present article is a slightly expanded version of one of the critiques of Professor Laurence S.

In legal philosophy there is perhaps no older, nor deeper, conflict than that which exists between legal positivists and natural law advocates.

Surely one of the most significant occurrences on the intellectual scene during the past few years has been the emergence of a professor of philoso

The primary purpose of this paper is to contrast Austrian and conventional concepts of cost.

Liberty, an international clearinghouse for libertarian ideas during the almost three decades of its existence (1881-1908), reported on an

Of all the lying truths popular today, one of the most important is surely the mendacity inherent in the term “mental illness.” In addi

The categories of “right” and “left” have been changing so rapidly in recent years in America that it becomes difficult to

One can appreciate Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick on many levels.

“We are passing through the most serious moment in the history of the world since the year 410 A.D.-the year of the fall of the Roman Empire

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

Many economists consider public goods to be a case of market “failure.” They argue that the free market cannot finance the optimal amou

Ever since economists undertook an economic analysis of the law there has waged the debate as to the proper criterion to use in deciding law cases.

In this paper, Antony Flew discusses Marx and Engels, Adam Smith, and social science.

Volume 8, Number 2 (1987)

In a provocative book recently published”’. Peter F.

Over the span of one hundred and fifty years, dissatisfaction with one or more of the fundamental postulates of theoretical economics has given imp

Not even the most doctrinaire egalitarian will deny that heredity affects, if it does not deter- mine, individual intelligence, strength, vitality,

The condition of the American medical profession at the close of the Civil War was, in almost every particular, significantly different from that w

Many of the problem areas in the law of contracts stem from the historical fact that the law of contracts has been fashioned out of material that does not fit together logically. Some jurists view contracts as conventions serving to secure people's expectations. These jurists, who support their approach by invoking the allied philosophical traditions of utilitarianism and pragmatism, have tried to make the law of contracts a device to protect parties who rely on promised advantages. Therefore, these jurists want law-enforcement processes to make people live up to the expectations they arouse in others.

It would probably be looked upon as unusual to associate sixteenth century Spain with the libertarian tradition.

Volume 2, Number 4 (1978)

Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) was one of the distinctive figures in the profound and wide ranging intellectual deb