Austro-Anarchist Libertarian Legal Theory

A mainstream friend of mine living in Hong Kong asked me a question about the libertarian perspective on antitrust law (what Europeans ungrammatically call “competition law,” just as they quaintly and awkwardly refer to corporate law as “company law”). He noted that there is a libertarian think-tank in Hong Kong that is vehemently opposed to [...]

From my recent TLS post: Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation by Stephan Kinsella on October 18, 2011 @ 2:56 pm · 0 comments in Anti-Statism, Business, Corporatism, Libertarian Theory The politics of the left-oriented Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, like that of the right-oriented modern Tea Party movement, is not very well defined. [...]

Ah, this movement of ours. Full of conspiracy nuts, layabouts, dope heads, gun nuts, anti-evolutionists, survivalists, weird diet obsessives, adherents of homeopathy and contrarian health views and fads, “unschoolers,” self-destructive losers, doom ‘n gloomers, activists who get worked up about electoral politics every four years… Ah, me. I was reminded of this when I stumbled [...]

One problem with minarchism is that it makes it difficult to find a principled opposition to various state policies and actions that violate individual rights. And just as controls breed controls,1 one compromise leads to another. Ayn Rand, for example, maintained that the subpoena power was legitimate–that state courts could legitimately compel people to show [...]

This weekend I came across an old journal I kept as a boy, when I was 8 to 10 years old, and was reading its goofy entries to my own 8 year old, to his delight. I came across an entry from November, 1975, when I was 10, and it strikes me now that it [...]

An audio version of my 2009 article, “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009), has been produced, narrated by Graham Wright (audio file).