“Ayn Rand and Friedrich A. Hayek: A Comparison”
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Abstract: This paper defends the Blockian Proviso against its critics, Kinsella in particular, and interprets it as a law of non-contradiction in the theory of just property rights. I demonstrate that...
View Article“Libertarianism and Abortion: A Reply to Professor Narveson”
Abstract: Jan Narveson criticizes the view expressed in my Libertarian Philosophy in the Real World that there is no orthodox libertarian position on the ethics of abortion. He asserts that fetuses...
View ArticleBook Review: “Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System“
Abstract: In a new book-length treatment, Tara Smith, who has written extensively on the intersections of Objectivist philosophy and law, explains how judicial review, a feature of non-Objectivist...
View Article“Some Principles of Politics”
Abstract: Unlike economists, it is unusual for political scientists to discuss first principles of our discipline. My purpose in this article is to make a small contribution toward remedying this...
View Article“What is Distribution in the Market Process?”
Abstract: It is a commonplace of the current learned diagnoses that modern technology has all but abolished the resistances of nature to the physical production and transportation of goods....
View Article“Libertarian Law and Military Defense”
Abstract: Joseph Newhard (2017) argues that a libertarian anarchist society would be at a serious military disadvantage if it extended the nonaggression principle to include potential foreign invaders....
View Article“Liberty Versus Democracy in Bruno Leoni and Friedrich von Hayek”
Abstract: This article discusses the parallels between Friedrich von Hayek and Bruno Leoni’s criticisms of democracy. Both men were leading protagonists of the classical liberal tradition. The thesis...
View Article“The Universal Categories of Praxeology in Light of Natural Semantic...
Abstract: This article presents a new approach to considering the categories and concepts necessary for praxeology based on the theoretical framework proposed by Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard....
View Article“Book Review: Speaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy“
Abstract: The editors of the volume Speaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy make an effort to wrestle the category of power away from the Foucauldian camp and use it as a tool to...
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