In 1980s Norway, a group committed to libertarian ideology became influential within Fremskrittspartiet. This new party known for its opposition not only taxation and public spending, but also non-western immigration. The libertarians the same party, however, advocated open borders. were ousted from in 1994, libertarianism has remained key plank party’s otherwise national-conservative ideology....

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the mass production of furniture in modern industrial societies and lower back pain (LBP). The latter has proven to be a major cost to health services and private industry throughout the industrialised world and now represents a global health issue as recent WHO reports on obesity and LBP reveal. Thus far there have been few co-ordina...

It is argued in this paper that the latest UK government white paper on public health, Choosing Health, is vulnerable to a charge of paternalism. For some years libertarians have levelled this charge at public health policies. The white paper tries to avoid it by constant reference to informed choice and choice related terms. The implication is that the government aims only to inform the public...

Libertarians believe that freedom exists but is incompatible with determinism, and so are committed to the compatibility of freedom and indeterminism. Perhaps the most pressing objection to libertarianism is the so-called Mind argument for the incompatibility of freedom and indeterminism. This essay presents a new criticism of the Mind argument that is at once decisive and instructive. After so...

L i k e many libertarians, I used to accept without question the idea that contracting out for government services was a good idea. After all, it puts production back into the hands of relatively efficient private producers. However, after reviewing the literature o n contracting out for law enforcement services (Benson 1990, pp. 17999), I had some second thoughts, concluding that while contrac...

IT IS OBVIOUS FROM his review of my book that J.H. Huebert holds me in genuine high esteem. This saddens him all the more for, in his view, I have squandered my talents on so unworthy a topic as Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, which he characterizes as “an unfortunate waste of talent for a powerful mind such as Randy Barnett’s” (p. 108). While there is much that I d...

This interesting volume is the end result of a small conference held at the University of Teesside in April 1995. It contains a combination of essays using social scientific and literary analysis to "advance the debate about the governance of cyberspace" (p. xii). The introductory essay by the editor of the volume, Brian Loader, defines cyberspace as "a computer-generated public domain which ha...

This essay examines the Swedish Freedom Front, created in 1989 by libertarians from editorial committee of Nyliberalen magazine. It argues that its emphasis on cultural, sexual, religious and political freedoms, libertarianism contained a different ideological repertoire neoliberalism. compares construction canon translated neoconservative neoliberal texts with popular vernacular register youth...