Libertarian Papers

ISSN: 1947-6949

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    Forcing Nozick Beyond the Minimal State: The Lockean Proviso and Compensatory Welfare.Adam Blincoe - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : Critics of Nozick have claimed that his formulation of the Lockean proviso is too permissive to serve as a morally plausible constraint on resource acquisition. In this essay, I advance a new critique of Nozick’s entitlement theory. In particular, I argue that even on his own permissive formulation of the Lockean proviso, he faces ….
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    The Lockean Proviso and the Value of Liberty: A Reply to Narveson.Adam Blincoe - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : In a recent essay, “Forcing Nozick Beyond the Minimal State: The Lockean Proviso and Compensatory Welfare,” I argue that Nozick’s own reading of the Lockean Proviso commits him to a welfare state. In a forceful response, Jan Narveson calls my argument into question by arguing for an especially austere reading of the Lockean Proviso as ….
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    Deriving Rights to Liberty.Scott A. Boykin - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : The rights to liberty championed by classical liberal and libertarian theorists may be supported as products of practical reason. The foundations for these rights rest initially on the idea that the separateness of persons is embedded in the circumstances of life that make justice a meaningful concept. We can discover the duties justice imposes […].
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    “Book Review: The Economics of Law, Order, and Action: The Logic of Public Goods“.Gerard Casey - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : The point of this book is to exhibit the deficiencies in the classical and neoclassical arguments that underpin the claim that a territorial monopoly of force is both desirable and inevitable to ground the supposedly public goods of law and defence. When you have finished reading this book, you might be inclined to think […].
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    Police Choice: Feasible Policy Options for a Safer and Freer Society.Corey A. DeAngelis - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : The system of policing in the United States is costly and ineffective, perhaps because of the government monopoly on residentially assigned police departments. A system of private or public police choice could introduce competitive pressures into the market for policing and improve overall quality levels. I discuss current and historical examples of private policing and […].
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    Innovative Dynamism Improves the Environment.Arthur M. Diamond Jr - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : The economic system of innovative dynamism is often accused of harming the environment. The opposite is true. As economies flourish through innovative dynamism, birth rates decline, new ways to extract old resources are invented, and previously useless materials are turned into useful new resources. Human and nonhuman animals are often adaptable and resilient in the […].
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    On Banking, Credit, and Inflation.Spencer Heath - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : In the end, there can be no credits or purchasing power but that which comes from the production of wealth and services and the putting of these into the course and channels of exchange. It is, at the last, only by freedom of production and freedom of exchange in unrestricted markets that authentic credits […].
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    The Anatomy of Nationalism: A Fresh Appraisal Based on Recent Case Studies.Jamin Andreas Hübner - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : Meaningfully defining “nationalism” is particularly challenging in a twenty-first-century context. Combined with overlap with related concepts, such as “statism” and “patriotism,” there exists an ever-present risk of losing the ability to effectively identify the main features of nationalism, and therefore a risk of losing our awareness of its influence. However, the resurgence of nationalism […].
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    A Summary of the Philosophy of Spencer Heath.Spencer Heath MacCallum & Alvin Lowi - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : A virtually unknown philosopher of the twentieth century, Spencer Heath was nevertheless well-known as a pioneer in the early development of commercial aviation. He retired from business in 1931 to devote the last thirty years of his life to his long-time interest in the philosophy of science and human social organization. He developed ….
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    Would-Be Farmer John and the Welfare State: A Response to Blincoe.Jan Narveson - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : Adam Blincoe aims to show that libertarianism, at least in Robert Nozick’s version, is faced with a dilemma: “Either Nozick must admit that taxation for the purpose of guaranteeing a compensatory level of welfare is legitimate or he must admit that his entitlement theory ….
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    A Strategic Doctrine of Disproportionate Force for Decentralized Asymmetric Warfare.Joseph Michael Newhard - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : Newhard recommends that anarcho-capitalist societies acquire nuclear weapons and adopt aggressive territorial-defense postures. This paper substantiates the argument for the necessity of such actions under reasonable assumptions. In particular, these societies are likely to be relatively small in geographic size, population, and economic output, inhibiting strategic depth and military spending. Deterrence and defense will […].
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    “Review Essay: Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives? The Foundations of the Libertarian-Conservative Debate“.Aleksandar Novakovic - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : This book makes interesting reading not only because of the subject but also because of the authors’ approach to it. It is, in fact, an energetic and thought-provoking dialogue between a libertarian political economist, Nikolai G. Wenzel, and a conservative political philosopher, Nathan W. Schlueter. By setting aside the journalistic urge for simplifications and […].
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    Quality Check: A Contextual Analysis of the Lockean Proviso.J. K. Numao - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    Libertarians have long been divided over how best to interpret the Lockean proviso, which requires that one leave “enough and as good” in common for others after one’s appropriation. This article sheds light on this exegetical question in relation to its qualitative part through a contextual analysis of Locke’s often neglected writings on ….
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    The Tenuous Foundations of the Sufficiency Proviso.Lamont Rodgers - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : Fabian Wendt proposes combining libertarian foundations with a proviso that requires a just system of private property to ensure that everyone has a sufficient amount of resources to pursue projects. He calls this proviso a sufficiency proviso. This proviso is said to have advantages over all rival provisos “because it better coheres with the […].
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    Reconciling Competing Systems of Property Rights through Adverse Possession.M. Garrett Roth - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : This paper argues for the consistency of adverse possession in land with a strict Lockean-liberatarian understanding of property rights due to the impermanence of man-made improvements by which unowned property is originally appropriated. This approach to property rights reconciles left- and right-libertarian positions as end points on a continuum of “temporal attitudes” toward property retention. ….
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    Speculation and the English Common Law Courts, 1697-1845.Jackson Tait - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, stockbrokers, speculators, and stockjobbers were often accused of fraud and price manipulation. Seven key regulatory acts were passed into law in England from 1697 to 1737. Evidence suggests that well into the nineteenth century, virtually none of these laws were adhered to or seriously enforced. An ….
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    Feasibility Claims in the Debate over Anarchy versus the Minimal State.Brad Taylor - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.
    : Accusations of infeasibility or utopianism are common in debates over libertarian institutions, but exactly what we mean when we say an idea is “utopian” or “infeasible” is often left unspecified. After reviewing recent philosophical work attempting to clarify the concept of “feasibility,” I consider how the concept has been deployed in the debate among libertarians […].
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