David Osterfeld

Articles

‘Social Utility’ and Government Transfers of Wealth: An Austrian Perspective

07/20/2005 Review of Austrian Economics David Osterfeld

From The Review of Austrian Economics Vol. 2, 1988.

Internal Inconsistencies in Arguments for Government: Nozick, Rand, and Hospers

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies David Osterfeld

Those who deny that the provision of protection services could be supplied through either the market or some other nonmonopolistic device must therefore endorse some sort of state. And those within...

Natural Rights Debate: A Comment On a Reply

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies David Osterfeld

In his “A Groundwork for Rights: Man’s Natural End,” Douglas Rasmussen takes issue with a paper I presented at the Fifth Annual Libertarian Scholar’s Conference in which I was concerned with the...

Publications

Freedom, Society, and the State

05/06/1986 David Osterfeld

From the author: Anarchist thought has traditionally been associated with socialism and has centered its attack not only on the state but on the market as well. Over the last two decades, however, there has emerged a notably new form of anarchism

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