Nominations for Best Libertarian Papers Article for 2010

Please feel free to send me nominations for the best Libertarian Papers article from 2010 for purposes of selecting the Alford Prize winner. Information about the Prize and the 2009 winner is below. The 45 articles published in 2010 may be found here, and are also listed below. Please send nominations directly to me, at nskinsella@gmail.com, or in the comments section.

Alford Prize Awarded for Best Libertarian Article in 2009

The O.P. Alford III Prize in Libertarian Scholarship is a $1000 prize awarded by the Mises Institute each year for the the article published in the preceding volume of Libertarian Papers that best advances libertarian scholarship, as chosen by the journal’s Editor and Editorial Board. (Read the full post)

2010 Articles

1. “Moundsville Penitentiary Reconsidered: Second Thoughts on Hyperreality at a Small Town Prison Tour”, by Allen Mendenhall View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

2. “Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Are 100 Percent Reserves Sufficient to Prevent a Business Cycle?”, by Philipp Bagus View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

3. “Rejoinder to Carnis on Private Roads”, by Walter E. Block, View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

4. “Van Dun on Freedom and Property: A Critique”, by Walter E. Block View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

5. “Two Concepts of Rationality”, by Danny Frederick View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

6. “Is There an ‘Anomalous’ Section of the Laffer Curve?”, by Walter E. BlockView the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article Listen to or Download the Audio version of this article

7. “How Anticommonism ‘Cemented’ the American Conservative Movement in a Liberal Age of Conformity, 1945–64?, by Lee Haddigan View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

8. “Voltairine de Cleyre: More of an Anarchist than a Feminist?”, by Steve J. Shone View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

9. “When Is a Monopoly Not a Monopoly? A Reply to Tibor Machan”, by Nicholas Dykes View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

10. “A Problem With Aristotle’s Ethical Essentialism”, by Tibor R. Machan View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

11. “Building the Cathedral as Sanctuary: Recognizing Action as the Basis of Property”, by Justin Altman View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

12. “The Third Axiom, or A Logic of Liberty: On the Structure of Ethics and Economics as One Unified Aprioristic Science”, by Peter J. Preusse View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

13. “Risking Aggression: Reply to Block”, by Kris Borer View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article Listen to or Download the Audio version of this article

14. “The Importance of Christian Thought for the American Libertarian Movement: Christian Libertarianism, 1950–71?, by Lee Haddigan View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

15. “William Pitt, the Bank of England, and the 1797 Suspension of Specie Payments: Central Bank War Finance During the Napoleonic Wars”, by Scott N. Duryea View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

16. “A Critique of Block on Abortion and Child Abandonment”, by Jakub Bo?ydar Wi?niewski View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

17. “Money and War in Murray Rothbard’s A History of Money and Banking in the United States”, by Leonidas Zelmanovitz View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

18. “Rand, Rothbard, and Rights Reconsidered”, by Kathleen Touchstone View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

19. “Review of Huebert’s Libertarianism Today”, by Walter E. Block View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

20. “The Human Body Sword”, by Kris Borer View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

21. “Robbers and Incendiaries: Protectionism Organizes at the Harrisburg Convention of 1827?, by W. Kesler Jackson View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

22. “The Legacy of Johnson’s War on Poverty”, by Samantha Mazzuca View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

23. “A Challenge to Ludwig von Mises’s Theory of Probability”, by Mark R. Crovelli View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

24. “Hayek and Departure from Praxeology”, by Jakub Wozinski View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

25. “Response to Jakobsson on Human Body Shields”, by Walter E. Block View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

26. “Capitalism, Socialism and Public Choice”, by Adrián Osvaldo Ravier View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

27. “A Competitive Market in Human Organs”, by Danny Frederick View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

28. “Critique of Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Stuart Farrand View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

29. “Distributive Justice and Free Market Economics: A Eudaimonistic Perspective”, by Michael F. Reber View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

30. “Libertarianism and Immigration”, by Diana Virginia Todea View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

31. “Rejoinder to Borer on the NAP”, by Walter E. Block View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

32. “Rejoinder to Wisniewski on Abortion”, by Walter E. Block View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

33. “Systems Thinking for an Economically Literate Society”, by Michael F. Reber View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

34. “Objections to the Libertarian Stem Cell Compromise”, by Walter E. Block View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

35. “Human Nature, Flourishing, and Happiness: Toward a Synthesis of Aristotelianism, Austrian Economics, Positive Psychology, and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism”, by Edward W. Younkins View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

36. “Self-Ownership, World-Ownership, and Initial Acquisition”, by Tristan Rogers View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

37. “Rejoinder to Block’s Defense of Evictionism”, by Jakub Bo?ydar Wi?niewski View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

38. “Discussion Note: Contemporary Philosophy Versus the Free Society”, by Tibor R. Machan View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

39. “Mises’s Defense of Liberty: A Critique”, by Sean Parr View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

40. “Cause No Conflict”, by Kris Borer View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

41. “Milton Friedman on Intolerance: A Critique”, by Walter E. Block View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

42. “Backing the Founders: The Case for Unalienable Individual Rights”, by Tibor R. Machan View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

43. “Why Credit Deflation Is More Likely than Mass Inflation: An Austrian Overview of the Inflation Versus Deflation Debate”, by Vijay Boyapati View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

44. “The Oft-Ignored Mr. Turton: The Role of District Collector in A Passage to India, by Allen Mendenhall View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

45. “The Current Evidence for Hayek’s Cultural Group Selection Theory”, by Brad Lowell Stone View the .pdf for this article View the .doc for this article

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