Libertarian Academics and Scholars

[yongrel]

I'm curious which current, living scholars are most popular here on RPF.

Professors, think tank scholars, historians, etc.

To get things started, a few of the folks I find compelling right now are Pete Boettke, Steve Horwitz, and David Friedman.

[heavenlyboy34]

I'm a Butler Shaffer fan, among others.

[erowe1]

Robert Higgs.

[Dreamofunity]

I'm a big fan of Woods. His presentation is amazing and very entertaining.

[Objectivist]

YouTube - Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (Part 1 of 4) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PaN9M4WwHw)
YouTube - Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (Part 2 of 4) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDV0YII6lk&feature=related)
YouTube - Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (Part 3 of 4) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgy0ymD-NI&feature=related)
YouTube - Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (Part 4 of 4) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mr-cjxZfU&feature=related)

Conza should be here soon to list his favorite.

[inibo]

Robert Higgs (http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=2871)
Butler Shaffer (http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer-arch.html)
Walter Block (http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block-arch.html)
Walter Williams (http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/williams-w-arch.html)
Thomas Woods (http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods-arch.html)
My current favorite: Stefan Moylneux (http://www.youtube.com/user/stefbot) YouTube - True News 13: Statism is Dead - Part 3 - The Matrix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P772Eb63qIY)

[jmlfod87]

LRC Columnists: http://www.lewrockwell.com/columnists.html

LvMI Authors: http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author

My personal favorites are Block and Higgs.

[heavenlyboy34]

we've got a good list going here! Very nice. :)

[South Park Fan]

Block, Woods, and DiLorenzo are my favorites

[Chieftain1776]

Bob Murphy of LvMI and author of the recent P.I.G to the Great Depression and New Deal (http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Depression-Guides/dp/1596980966/lewrockwell).

Bryan Caplan of George Mason University, blogs at econlog (http://econlog.econlib.org/) and author of the Myth of the Rational Voter (http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691138737/lewrockwell) (which has had the most influence on my outlook on politics over the past year.)

And I'd echo Woods, Higgs and DiLorenzo.

[RSLudlum]

Woods, Williams, Higgs, Block, DiLorenzo, and Karen Kwiatkowski

I really like Woods and Williams approach of attacking with a sense of humor, damn good speakers also.

[inibo]

Woods, Williams, Higgs, Block, DiLorenzo, and Karen Kwiatkowski

I really like Woods and Williams approach of attacking with a sense of humor, damn good speakers also.

Williams, especially. I always enjoyed his writing, but I recently ran across some of his videos. I love them.
YouTube - Walter E Williams - Economics of Liberty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUL152yGVGI)

[Conza88]

To get things started, a few of the folks I find compelling right now are Pete Boettke, Steve Horwitz, and David Friedman.


http://www.0sw.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/thumbsdown.jpg

:p

[RSLudlum]

The most recent Williams lecture I've seen online was hosted by DiLorenzo at Loyola.

http://www.lndlibrary.org/loyola_media/event_services/walterwilliams/walterwilliams.htm

[Conza88]

Conza should be here soon to list his favorite.

lol... :o Yours didn't fit the criteria :p


Robert Higgs (http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=2871)
Walter Block (http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block-arch.html)
Thomas Woods (http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods-arch.html)



LRC Columnists: http://www.lewrockwell.com/columnists.html
LvMI Authors: http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author

Plus... David Gordon, he does great reviews of books and is amazing in terms of what individuals offered in schools of thought, and the main overall differences etc.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe... Democracy: The God that Failed.. spent his last ten years working beside Murray Rothbard.. argumentation ethics... + considerable other works and advancements.

Probably / arguably the most advanced living scholar in the world.

Hoppephobia by Murray N. Rothbard (http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard47.html)



The Lomasky review is an interesting example of what is getting to be a fairly common phenomenon: Hoppephobia. Although he is an amiable man personally, Hoppe's written work seems to have the remarkable capacity to send some readers up the wall, blood pressure soaring, muttering and chewing the carpet. It is not impolite attacks on critics that does it. Perhaps the answer is Hoppe's logical and deductive mode of thought and writing, demonstrating the truth of his propositions and showing that those who differ are often trapped in self-contradiction and self-refutation.

In the good old days, this was a common style in philosophy, employed by Kantians, Thomists, Misesians, and Randians alike. In the modern age, however, this method of thought and writing has gone severely out of fashion in philosophy, where truth is almost never arrived at – and certainly never argued for in a deductive fashion. The modern mode is utilitarian, positivist, tangential, puzzle-oriented, and pseudo-empiricist. As a result, modern positivist types have gone flabby and complacent, and reading hard-core deductivists – to say nothing of hard-core libertarians! – hits these people with the force of a blow to the gut.

[inibo]

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

How could I have forgotten him? The man is devastatingly brilliant.

[Fozz]

Woods, DiLorenzo, Bob Murphy, and from the past.......Murray Rothbard.

[yongrel]

A few more:

Loren Lomasky (http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/Lomasky.htm), Tyler Cowen (http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/Tyler/), Tom Palmer (http://tomgpalmer.com/), and Don Boudreaux (http://economics.gmu.edu/boudreaux/index.html).

[yongrel]

http://www.0sw.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/thumbsdown.jpg

:p

Also, what? Is this one of those "Conza being conza" moments? :p

[Cowlesy]

A few more:

Loren Lomasky (http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/Lomasky.htm), Tyler Cowen (http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/Tyler/), Tom Palmer (http://tomgpalmer.com/), and Don Boudreaux (http://economics.gmu.edu/boudreaux/index.html).

Thumbs up for Cafe Hayek and Marginal Revolution.

[Cowlesy]

You know I've always wondered how much more I would have enjoyed my economics education (grounded in heterodox political economy of Marx and others) had I received a George Mason University econ degree.

I guess from one point of view, it is always good to know that with which you disagree.

This site is a very broad overview of the heterodox school aka "UMass-Amherst" (http://www.umass.edu/economics/facjobs.html)

[powerofreason]

Lew Rockwell
Tom Woods
Walter Block
Murray Rothbard
Roderick Long
Hans Hoppe
Robert Higgs
Butler Shaffer
Tom DiLorenzo
Robert Murphy
Stephan Kinsella

I consider myself to be a Left-Rothbardian.

[yongrel]

Thumbs up for Cafe Hayek and Marginal Revolution.

Two of the first blogs I read when I get to work. Not to mention, Cowen's Ethnic Dining guide is essential.

[Conza88]

Also, what? Is this one of those "Conza being conza" moments? :p

Kludge needs to comment on this.

[Bradley in DC]

Thumbs up for Cafe Hayek and Marginal Revolution.

Add the Liberty & Power blog too.

[yongrel]

Kludge needs to comment on this.

...?

[Kludge]

...?

*shrugs*

I'm not particularly fond of any living libertarians in the spotlight (scholars or otherwise I'm aware of). Closest to me would probably be the now-dead Robert LeFevre, though I still dislike many of his ideas.

[StilesBC]

Let us not forget some of the international liberty lovers:

Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany)
Pascal Salin (France)
Jesus Huerta de Soto (Spain)

And a few other Americans who I have learned a lot from include:

Joseph Salerno
Peter Klein
David Gordon

among others previously mentioned.

[Munier1]

Noam Chomsky - libertarian socialist

The laser's edge in libertarian thought.

*crickets begin chirping*

[t0rnado]

A crap load of scientists are libertarian like Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennet, James D. Watson, and Crick. I'd say that most of scientists and professors I know are hardcore libertarians.