Political Theory

Delivered to the Oxford Libertarian Society, Balliol College, on 23 October 2008.

Recorded at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit, 1 November 2008; Auburn, Alabama. Includes a brief introduction by Mark Thornton.

Libertarians of course believe in the free market; if you find someone who favors the government provision of medical care or education, e.g., you

The principal criticism of anarchism posed by the minarchists here represented is that a free society requires an objective, uniform law code, a demand anarchism cannot satisfy.

Chapter 29 of Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise; “The Future”.

Woods and Gutzman have selected twelve cases to illustrate this disregard of the Constitution. By no means are all of these examples of judicial misconduct; the legislative and executive branches have been at least as guilty as the judicial in seeking to enhance government power.

A demand for monetary freedom — a repeal of legal-tender laws and the opening up of the banking system to private enterprise — is nothing more than the extension of freedom generally.

From The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La 

From The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La&

From The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La Boétie. Pages 39-47 in the text, as n