This first issue of the revived JLS contains articles that reflect the founding vision of Murray Rothbard, with a range of subjects: economics, history of political thought, legal theory, and philosophy.
In this issue, Roberta Modugno writes on “The Libertarian Legacy of the Old Right,” and Carlton Smith contributes a pair of articles, “Keynes’s General Theory: A Solution in Search of a Problem” and “Socialism and the Anarchy of Production.” Connor Kianpour tackles the immigration issue with “Breaking Boundaries: An Investigation of Libertarian Open Borders.” Jason Morgan writes on Austrian legal scholar Eugen Ehrlich and the Soviet jurist Evgeny Pashukanis in “A Practical Approach to Legal-Pluralist Anarchism.” J.C. Lester untangles conceptions of interpersonal liberty in “The Heterodox ‘Fourth Paradigm’ of Libertarianism.” Finally, David Dürr’s Murray Rothbard Memorial Lecture at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference, “The Inescapability of Law and of Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe,” is published here.
- ArticlesThis Murray Rothbard Memorial Lecture, delivered at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference, discusses anarchistic arguments against the classical liberal and social democratic conceptions of the state.
- ArticlesWhy is it impossible for anyone to develop a comprehensive plan of production as a whole? This article explains, applying the conclusion to the experience of the Soviet Union.
- ArticlesUntangling the libertarian concepts of interpersonal liberty, this article proposes a new paradigm of libertarianism to solve the old one's problems.
- ArticlesJohn Hasnas has argued that anarchy must be achieved gradually. The way to Hasnian anarchy or minarchy lies in the application of case law to decrease state power.
- ArticlesLibertarian arguments for open borders differ from liberal arguments for open borders, which illuminate how disparate these philosophical traditions are, especially in the manner that they conceive of rights.
- ArticlesEven on its own terms, the General Theory must be considered a failure, for the problem it purports to solve, involuntary unemployment, does not exist.
- ArticlesWhat is the relationship between libertarianism and democracy? This article unveils a well-consolidated tradition of criticism of democracy within libertarian political philosophy.