Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Articles

The Viennese Connection: Alfred Schutz and the Austrian School

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Volume 6, No. 2 (Summer 2003) In the following I shall try, first, to briefly introduce the two interpretations of Schutz’s relationship with the Austrians, and second, to cast new and more detailed...

Self-Ownership and Consent: The Contractarian Liberalism of Richard Overton

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

In the 1640s, an unknown English printer by the name of Richard Overton suddenly surfaced, seemingly out of nowhere, and catapulted himself into national attention and controversy, only to disappear...

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