The thesis of Patrick Newman’s _Cronyism_ (2021) is that American political history from 1607 to 1849 was in large part a tug war between mercantilists who essentially stood for the theory main purpose government those run it plunder do not—and libertarians. former group organized politically as Federalists, National Republicans, and Whigs, whereas Antifederalists, early nineteenth-century Demo...

I n nearly every state in the U.S. today, it is a crime for a doctor either to help a terminally ill person in severe pain commit suicide (physician-assisted suicide, or PAS), or to accede to their request for a quick and painless death by administering a lethal injection (voluntary active euthanasia, or VAE). The one exception is Oregon, which permits PAS under certain conditions. Generally sp...

Public Finance Harvey Rosen Chapter One: Introduction 1. This book is about the taxing and spending activity of government, a subject usually called public finance. This term is something of a misnomer, because the fundamental issues are not financial (that is, relating to money). Rather, the key problems relate to the use real resources. P4 2. Our focus is on the microeconomic functions of gov...

Drawing on empirical evidence from history and anthropology, we aim to demonstrate that there is room for genealogical ideology critique within normative political theory. The test case some libertarians’ use of folk notions private property rights in defense the legitimacy capitalist states. Our genealogy notion shows asking whether a state can emerge without violations self-ownership cannot h...

This article defends indirect libertarianism against those arguments which attempt to show that blameworthiness cannot be traced back earlier blameworthy acts in most cases. More precisely, I focus on according responsibility cases because agents are unable foresee the distant consequences of their . Since claims we responsible for many actions, omissions, beliefs, attitudes they can free acts,...

Individual-level authoritarianism is prominent in explanations of preferences for Brexit. We contend that extant accounts have provided an incomplete theoretical and empirical understanding this relationship. Drawing on the idea ‘authoritarian dynamic’, we show perceptions economic/cultural threat immigration stronger effects pro-Brexit views individuals with weak authoritarian predispositions ...

In the last chapter of The Ethics Liberty, Rothbard discusses his theory strategy for liberty, and recommends tools such as education that libertarians can lean on to attain highest political goal freedom. Building Rothbard’s shoulders, main thesis this paper is an effective liberty cannot dispense with privacy, which needs be understood a condition enjoyment not right per se. first section, di...

This essay makes a critical defence of free expression through the spirit outrageousness. Drawing upon ideas Oscar Wilde, along with artists such as Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Gilbert and George Jake Dinos Chapman, it looks beyond current attempts to reduce question freedom quintessential liberal tropes. In doing so, paper both offers critique moral absolutism that’s taken over certain sectors...

This article explores why neoliberals associated with the Mont Pelerin Society disagreed on legitimacy of a guaranteed income in 1960s and 1970s United States. Participants this debate are categorized along spectrum between “libertarians” like Milton Friedman George Stigler, who favoured minimum-income plan, “paternalists” Henry Hazlitt, opposed one any form. While these figures were united the...