Smith explains why benevolence is desirable but justice is essential to how we measure our behavior in the eyes of others. Adam Smith was a Scottish political philosopher and economist, considered one ...

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other. If this be ...

Wollstonecraft argues the case for women’s rights entirely in libertarian terms of equal and natural rights.

Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...

Anarchism is a theory of society without the state in which the market provides all public goods and services, such as law and order. Although most anarchists oppose all large institutions, public or ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged.

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion.

This morning, I did a short interview with the Cato Institute about the libertarian case for a Basic Income Guarantee. The immediate stimulus for the conversation was the recent Swiss proposal to pay ...

Does the non- aggression principle prohibit all pollution, including industry, driving, and flashlights?

Mchangama argues for the necessity of the right to own not just personal property, but all property, including the means of production.

Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones Act of today? Caleb Petitt argues that a careful reading of Smith on the ...

Smith discusses Kant’s attempt to justify objective moral principles and his views on when the use of coercion is morally proper.