Issue of Libertarian Papers
Volume 2, 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 2, Number 1 is a free 9.1 MB download at freecapitalists.org, 45 articles as separate PDFs.
Contents of this issue
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1. “Moundsville Penitentiary Reconsidered: Second Thoughts on Hyperreality at a Small Town Prison Tour”
By Allen Mendenhall · Article 1
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2. “Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Are 100 Percent Reserves Sufficient to Prevent a Business Cycle?”
By Philipp Bagus · Article 2
167 KB
3. “Rejoinder to Carnis on Private Roads”
By Walter E. Block · Article 3
153 KB
4. “Van Dun on Freedom and Property: A Critique”
By Walter E. Block · Article 4
163 KB
5. “Two Concepts of Rationality”
By Danny Frederick · Article 5
167 KB
6. “Is There an ‘Anomalous’ Section of the Laffer Curve?”
By Walter E. Block · Article 6
155 KB
7. “How Anticommonism ‘Cemented’ the American Conservative Movement in a Liberal Age of Conformity, 1945–64”
By Lee Haddigan · Article 7
209 KB
8. “Voltairine de Cleyre: More of an Anarchist than a Feminist?”
By Steve J. Shone · Article 8
298 KB
9. “When Is a Monopoly Not a Monopoly? A Reply to Tibor Machan”
By Nicholas Dykes · Article 9
136 KB
10. “A Problem With Aristotle’s Ethical Essentialism”
By Tibor R. Machan · Article 10
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11. “Building the Cathedral as Sanctuary: Recognizing Action as the Basis of Property”
By Justin M. Altman · Article 11
170 KB
12. “The Third Axiom, or A Logic of Liberty: On the Structure of Ethics and Economics as One Unified Aprioristic Science”
By Peter J. Preusse · Article 12
330 KB
13. “Risking Aggression: Reply to Block”
By Kris Borer · Article 13
129 KB
14. “The Importance of Christian Thought for the American Libertarian Movement: Christian Libertarianism, 1950–71”
By Lee Haddigan · Article 14
199 KB
15. “William Pitt, the Bank of England, and the 1797 Suspension of Specie Payments: Central Bank War Finance During the Napoleonic Wars”
By Scott N. Duryea · Article 15
224 KB
16. “A Critique of Block on Abortion and Child Abandonment”
By Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski · Article 16
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17. “Money and War in Murray Rothbard’s A History of Money and Banking in the United States”
By Leonidas Zelmanovitz · Article 17
260 KB
18. “Rand, Rothbard, and Rights Reconsidered”
By Kathleen Touchstone · Article 18
301 KB
19. “Review of Huebert’s Libertarianism Today”
By Walter E. Block · Article 19
119 KB
20. “The Human Body Sword”
By Kris Borer · Article 20
118 KB
21. “Robbers and Incendiaries: Protectionism Organizes at the Harrisburg Convention of 1827”
By W. Kesler Jackson · Article 21
267 KB
22. “The Legacy of Johnson’s War on Poverty”
By Samantha Mazzuca · Article 22
180 KB
23. “A Challenge to Ludwig von Mises’s Theory of Probability”
By Mark R. Crovelli · Article 23
210 KB
24. “Hayek and Departure from Praxeology”
By Jakub Wozinski · Article 24
117 KB
25. “Response to Jakobsson on Human Body Shields”
By Walter E. Block · Article 25
146 KB
26. “Capitalism, Socialism and Public Choice”
By Adrián O. Ravier · Article 26
204 KB
27. “A Competitive Market in Human Organs”
By Danny Frederick · Article 27
248 KB
28. “Critique of Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter”
By Stuart Farrand · Article 28
130 KB
29. “Distributive Justice and Free Market Economics: A Eudaimonistic Perspective”
By Michael F. Reber · Article 29
177 KB
30. “Libertarianism and Immigration”
By Diana Virginia Todea · Article 30
240 KB
31. “Rejoinder to Borer on the NAP”
By Walter E. Block · Article 31
195 KB
32. “Rejoinder to Wisniewski on Abortion”
By Walter E. Block · Article 32
138 KB
33. “Systems Thinking for an Economically Literate Society”
By Michael F. Reber · Article 33
244 KB
34. “Objections to the Libertarian Stem Cell Compromise”
By Walter E. Block · Article 34
167 KB
35. “Human Nature, Flourishing, and Happiness: Toward a Synthesis of Aristotelianism, Austrian Economics, Positive Psychology, and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism”
By Edward W. Younkins · Article 35
530 KB
36. “Self-Ownership, World-Ownership, and Initial Acquisition”
By Tristan Rogers · Article 36
263 KB
37. “Rejoinder to Block’s Defense of Evictionism”
By Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski · Article 37
103 KB
38. “Discussion Note: Contemporary Philosophy Versus the Free Society”
By Tibor R. Machan · Article 38
129 KB
39. “Mises’s Defense of Liberty: A Critique”
By Sean Parr · Article 39
122 KB
40. “Cause No Conflict”
By Kris Borer · Article 40
150 KB
41. “Milton Friedman on Intolerance: A Critique”
By Walter E. Block · Article 41
338 KB
42. “Backing the Founders: The Case for Unalienable Individual Rights”
By Tibor R. Machan · Article 42
172 KB
43. “Why Credit Deflation Is More Likely than Mass Inflation: An Austrian Overview of the Inflation Versus Deflation Debate”
By Vijay Boyapati · Article 43
691 KB
44. “The Oft-Ignored Mr. Turton: The Role of District Collector in A Passage to India”
By Allen Mendenhall · Article 44
338 KB
45. “The Current Evidence for Hayek’s Cultural Group Selection Theory”
By Brad Lowell Stone · Article 45
238 KB
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