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Volume 9, Number 2 (1990) The creed of laissez faire-individual liberty, inviolate rights of property, free markets, and minimal government is virtually bound to be a radical one. That is, this libertarian creed is necessarily set in profound conflict with existing forms of polity, which have generally been one or another variety of statism. In

Perhaps the best way of writing an introduction for this most welcome French translation of Ethics of Liberty is to discuss what has happened to libertarianism since the book’s original publication in 1982. Any such history can be divided into first, the development of libertarian theory, and second, its spread throughout the opinions and views of

Volume 11, Number 2 (1995) Introduction I. The Market vs. Government II. The Structure and Goals of Bureaucracy III. Limiting Terms of Office in the Original American States IV. The Civil Service vs. Rotation in Office V. The United States Civil Service: The Federalist Beginnings VI. The Failed Jeffersonian Revolution VII. Andrew Jackson and the

Libertarians tend to focus on two important units of analysis: the individual and the state. And yet, one of the most dramatic and significant events of our time has been the re-emergence—with a bang—in the last five years of a third and much neglected aspect of the real world, the “nation.” Volume 11, Number 1 (1994) Rothbard, Murray N.

Volume 16, Number 4 (2002) Mention “free-market economics” to a member of the lay public and chances are that if he has heard the term at all, he identifies it completely with the name Milton Friedman. For several years, Professor Friedman has won continuing honors from the press and the profession alike, and a school of Friedmanites and

The Free Market Special Issue (1984) Our country is beset by a large number of economic myths that distort public thinking on important problems and lead us to accept unsound and dangerous government policies. Here are ten of the most dangerous of these myths and an analysis of what is wrong with them. Myth #1: Deficits are the cause of inflation;

Volume 20, Number 1 (2006) First, I must begin by affirming my conviction that Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker were unsurpassed as political philosophers and that nothing is more needed today than a revival and development of the largely forgotten legacy that they left to political philosophy. By the mid-nineteenth century, the libertarian

The Free Market 3, no. 1 (January 1986)   The press touted it as yet another chapter in the unending success story of “government-business cooperation.” The traditional tale is that a glaring problem arises, caused by the unchecked and selfish actions of capitalist greed. And that then a wise and far-sighted government agency, seeing deeply and

The Free Market 3, no. 2 (February 1986)   A little over twenty-five years ago a revolutionary event occurred in the world of business and in American society generally. It was a revolution accomplished without bloodshed and without anyone being executed. The Xerox 914, the world’s first fully-automated plain-paper copier, was exhibited to the

The Free Market 3, no. 6 (June 1986)   Hosannas have poured in from all parts of the academic spectrum — left, right, and center — hailing the Treasury’s draft plan as an approach to the ideal of the “flat tax.” (Since the plan calls for three classes of income tax rates, it has been called a “flat tax with bumps.”) This near-unanimity should not