Issue of Libertarian Papers
Volume 1, Number 1
Published by Founded and edited by Stephan Kinsella (with Matthew McCaffrey); independent online journal, not a Mises Institute publication. Libertarian Papers ran 2009-2018 (ceased publication after Volume 10, per its own final editorial).
Libertarian Papers, Volume 1, Number 1 is a free 7.7 MB download at freecapitalists.org, 43 articles as separate PDFs.
Contents of this issue
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1. “Present Payments, Past Wrongs: Correcting Loose Talk about Nozick and Rectification”
By Jan Narveson · Article 1
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2. “Observations on Professor Hayek’s Plan”
By Ludwig von Mises · Article 2
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3. “Rothbard’s Confidential Memorandum to the Volker Fund, ‘What Is To Be Done?'”
By Murray N. Rothbard · Article 3
171 KB
4. “A Revealing Window on the U.S. Economy in Depression and War: Hours Worked, 1929–1950”
By Robert Higgs · Article 4
348 KB
5. “Libertarianism and the Possibility of the Legitimate State”
By Nicolás Maloberti · Article 5
143 KB
6. “Why Libertarians Should Reject Positive Rights”
By Joshua Katz · Article 6
104 KB
7. “Libertarianism and Positive Rights: Comments on Katz’s Reply”
By Nicolás Maloberti · Article 7
105 KB
8. “Dead End Street Blues”
By Frank van Dun · Article 8
255 KB
9. “Austrian Economics—The Ultimate Achievement of an Intellectual Journey”
By Pascal Salin · Article 9
147 KB
10. “Globalization and Peace: A Hayekian Perspective”
By Adrián Osvaldo Ravier · Article 10
160 KB
11. “Two Constructions of Libertarianism”
By Chandran Kukathas · Article 11
137 KB
12. “The Role of Subscription-Based Patrol and Restitution in the Future of Liberty”
By Gil Guillory, Patrick Tinsley · Article 12
379 KB
13: “Review of Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and his Surroundings”
By Aschwin de Wolf · Article 13
107 KB
14: “A Treatise for A New Age in Economic Theory: A Review of George Reisman’s Capitalism”
By Wladimir Kraus · Article 14
120 KB
15. “Two Views of Liberty, Occidental and Oriental (?)”
By Bruno Leoni · Article 15
171 KB
16: “On A Recent Theory of ‘Legal Obligation'”
By Bruno Leoni · Article 16
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17. “Libertarian Punishment Theory: Working for, and Donating to, the State”
By Walter Block · Article 17
221 KB
18. “Grounding Political Debate”
By Benjamin Marks · Article 18
160 KB
19. “Argumentation Ethics and The Philosophy of Freedom”
By Frank van Dun · Article 19
324 KB
20. “A Reply to the Current Critiques Formulated Against Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics”
By Marian Eabrasu · Article 20
298 KB
21. “‘Triune’ Protection and its Implications for the Minimal State”
By Jinglei Hu · Article 21
212 KB
22. “Discussion: Must We Choose between Chandran Kukathas’s ‘Two Constructions of Libertarianism’?”
By Jan Narveson · Article 22
142 KB
23. “Free Will and Preactions”
By Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski · Article 23
113 KB
24. “Causation and Responsibility: A New Direction”
By Matt Mortellaro · Article 24
177 KB
25. “‘I Paid for this Microphone!’ The Importance of Shareholder Theory in (Teaching) Business Ethics”
By David Levy, Mark Mitschow · Article 25
156 KB
26. “On the Possibility of Assigning Probabilities to Singular Cases, or: Probability Is Subjective Too!”
By Mark R. Crovelli · Article 26
153 KB
27. “Milton Friedman & the Human Good”
By Tibor R. Machan · Article 27
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28. “Why Pr. Block Is Not Entirely Right and Pr. Tullock Is Completely Wrong: The Case for Road Privatization”
By Laurent A.H. Carnis · Article 28
124 KB
29. “The Rocky Road to Paradise: Why Economic Liberalization is Interrupted”
By David Barker · Article 29
134 KB
30. “Mercantilism, Corporations, and Liberty: The Fallacies of ‘Lochnerian’ Antitrust”
By James Rolph Edwards · Article 30
140 KB
31. “The Ethics of U.S. Monetary Policy in Response to the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009”
By George Bragues · Article 31
256 KB
32. “Gold, the Golden Rule, and Government: Civil Society and the End of the State”
By D.G. White · Article 32
454 KB
33. “Reply to Matt Mortellaro on ‘Block’s Paradox’: Causation, Responsibility, Libertarian Law, Entrapment, Threats and Blackmail”
By Walter E. Block · Article 33
173 KB
34. “Feser on Rothbard as a Philosopher”
By Gerard Casey · Article 34
160 KB
35. “On the Concept of Causality in the Criminal Law”
By Adolf Reinach · Article 35
272 KB
37. “Minarchy Considered”
By Richard A. Garner · Article 37
514 KB
38. “Areopagitica: Milton’s Influence on Classical and Modern Political and Economic Thought”
By Isaac M. Morehouse · Article 38
132 KB
39. “Austrian Economics and the Transaction Cost Approach to the Firm”
By Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein · Article 39
237 KB
40. “A Thought Experiment Comparing Austrian and Keynesian Stimulus Packages”
By Wladimir Kraus · Article 40
138 KB
41. “Why There are No Dilemmas in Widerquist’s ‘A Dilemma for Libertarians'”
By Lamont Rodgers · Article 41
136 KB
42. “Single Trial Probability Applications: Can Subjectivity Evade Frequency Limitations?”
By David Howden · Article 42
127 KB
43. “The Definition of Inflation According to Mises: Implications for the Debate on Free Banking”
By Nicolás Cachanosky · Article 43
96.0 KB
44. “Has David Howden Vindicated Richard von Mises’s Definition of Probability?”
By Mark R. Crovelli · Article 44
118 KB
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