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 
2. “Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Are 100 Percent Reserves Sufficient to Prevent a Business Cycle?”, by Philipp Bagus
3. “Rejoinder to Carnis on Private Roads”, by Walter E. Block,
4. “Van Dun on Freedom and Property: A Critique”, by Walter E. Block
5. “Two Concepts of Rationality”, by Danny Frederick
6. “Is There an ‘Anomalous’ Section of the Laffer Curve?”, by Walter E. Block 
7. “How Anticommonism ‘Cemented’ the American Conservative Movement in a Liberal Age of Conformity, 1945–64?, by Lee Haddigan
8. “Voltairine de Cleyre: More of an Anarchist than a Feminist?”, by Steve J. Shone
9. “When Is a Monopoly Not a Monopoly? A Reply to Tibor Machan”, by Nicholas Dykes
10. “A Problem With Aristotle’s Ethical Essentialism”, by Tibor R. Machan
11. “Building the Cathedral as Sanctuary: Recognizing Action as the Basis of Property”, by Justin Altman
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
13. “Risking Aggression: Reply to Block”, by Kris Borer
14. “The Importance of Christian Thought for the American Libertarian Movement: Christian Libertarianism, 1950–71?, by Lee Haddigan
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
16. “A Critique of Block on Abortion and Child Abandonment”, by Jakub Bo?ydar Wi?niewski
17. “Money and War in Murray Rothbard’s A History of Money and Banking in the United States”, by Leonidas Zelmanovitz
18. “Rand, Rothbard, and Rights Reconsidered”, by Kathleen Touchstone
19. “Review of Huebert’s Libertarianism Today”, by Walter E. Block
20. “The Human Body Sword”, by Kris Borer
21. “Robbers and Incendiaries: Protectionism Organizes at the Harrisburg Convention of 1827?, by W. Kesler Jackson
22. “The Legacy of Johnson’s War on Poverty”, by Samantha Mazzuca
23. “A Challenge to Ludwig von Mises’s Theory of Probability”, by Mark R. Crovelli
24. “Hayek and Departure from Praxeology”, by Jakub Wozinski
25. “Response to Jakobsson on Human Body Shields”, by Walter E. Block
26. “Capitalism, Socialism and Public Choice”, by Adrián Osvaldo Ravier
27. “A Competitive Market in Human Organs”, by Danny Frederick
28. “Critique of Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter“, by Stuart Farrand
29. “Distributive Justice and Free Market Economics: A Eudaimonistic Perspective”, by Michael F. Reber
30. “Libertarianism and Immigration”, by Diana Virginia Todea
31. “Rejoinder to Borer on the NAP”, by Walter E. Block
32. “Rejoinder to Wisniewski on Abortion”, by Walter E. Block
33. “Systems Thinking for an Economically Literate Society”, by Michael F. Reber
34. “Objections to the Libertarian Stem Cell Compromise”, by Walter E. Block
35. “Human Nature, Flourishing, and Happiness: Toward a Synthesis of Aristotelianism, Austrian Economics, Positive Psychology, and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism”, by Edward W. Younkins
36. “Self-Ownership, World-Ownership, and Initial Acquisition”, by Tristan Rogers
37. “Rejoinder to Block’s Defense of Evictionism”, by Jakub Bo?ydar Wi?niewski
38. “Discussion Note: Contemporary Philosophy Versus the Free Society”, by Tibor R. Machan
39. “Mises’s Defense of Liberty: A Critique”, by Sean Parr
40. “Cause No Conflict”, by Kris Borer
41. “Milton Friedman on Intolerance: A Critique”, by Walter E. Block
42. “Backing the Founders: The Case for Unalienable Individual Rights”, by Tibor R. Machan
43. “Why Credit Deflation Is More Likely than Mass Inflation: An Austrian Overview of the Inflation Versus Deflation Debate”, by Vijay Boyapati
44. “The Oft-Ignored Mr. Turton: The Role of District Collector in A Passage to India“, by Allen Mendenhall
45. “The Current Evidence for Hayek’s Cultural Group Selection Theory”, by Brad Lowell Stone
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