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Advancing the Scholarship of Liberty in the Tradition of the Austrian School

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Roderick T. Long: EDITOR’S REMARKS . . . Today our numbers are rapidly growing, and our potential audience is as wide as the internet. I hope you will join us in making the Journal of Libertarian Studies the chief academic harbinger of the libertarian revolution.

ROTHBARD’S TIME ON THE LEFT by John Payne. Murray Rothbard devoted his life to the struggle for liberty, but, as everyone who has made a similar commitment realizes, it is never exactly clear how that devotion should translate into action. Consequently, Rothbard formed strategic alliances with widely different groups throughout his career . . .

ANDERSON, HAZLITT, AND THE QUANTITY THEORY OF MONEY by Jude Blanchette. Hazlitt, economist and journalist, played a decisive role in the postwar presentation and dissemination of Austrian ideas in America. He brought broad attention to the works and ideas of Mises and Hayek to an English-speaking world that might have otherwise disregarded these Austrian exiles . . .

MERCHANTS OF DEATH REVISITED: ARMAMENTS, BANKERS, AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR by T. Hunt Tooley. First published in 1934 the authors presented a convincing historical argument that armaments manufacturers, working hand-in-hand with governments, have played a malign role in the modern world, in particular in the period of WW I . . .

REJOINDER TO CAPLAN ON BAYESIAN ECONOMICS by Walter Block. To the best of my knowledge, there were three Methodenstreits (or debates in the literature over the proper method to use in economics) and a handful of “mini-Methodenstreits” in which Austrians took part . . .

Book Review of BENJAMIN CONSTANT: PRINCIPLES OF POLITICS APPLICABLE TO ALL GOVERNMENTS, reviewed by Gary Galles. There was not a complete English translation of Constant’s 1810 work until 2003. This translation reveals that English speakers have been missing access to a major voice on behalf of liberty for almost two centures . . .

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I consider myself an independent, leaning toward the right. Perhaps I should be more a Libertarian?
Ike Hall June 18, 2005 at 11:54 pm: Well, sure! The best thing to do is to see where you stand in the political spectrum. A simple yet enlightening test is the Advocates for Self Government’s World’s Smallest Political Quiz.

Of course, the anarcho-capitalists on this site score not only at the top of the chart, but well off it, based on a couple of questions they ask (which is designed for someone with the common understanding of government). To wit:

“Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft” There should be no coercive military, only armed citizens and private defense agencies.

“Let people control their own retirement; privatize Social Security” The only proper thing to do with Social Security is to end it.

Still, these are quibbles. Overall, the Quiz is an excellent gauge of where you stand.

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