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Center for Libertarian Studies

Center for Libertarian Studies

Overview
The Center for Libertarian Studies is a libertarian and anarcho-capitalist oriented educational organization founded in 1976 by Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard was an American intellectual, individualist anarchist, author, and economist of the Austrian School who helped define modern libertarianism and popularized a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism"...

 and Burton Blumert
Burton Blumert
Burton S. Blumert was the president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California, chairman of the Mises Institute, and the publisher of LewRockwell.com...

, which grew out of the Libertarian Scholars Conferences. It published the Journal of Libertarian Studies
Journal of Libertarian Studies
The Journal of Libertarian Studies was a scholarly journal published annually by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.. It was founded in the spring of 1977 by Murray Rothbard who also served as its editor until his death in 1995...

from 1977 to 2000 (now published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute
Ludwig von Mises Institute
The Ludwig von Mises Institute , based in Auburn, Alabama, is a libertarian academic organization engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy. Its scholarship is inspired by the work of Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises...

), a newsletter (In Pursuit of Liberty), several monographs, and sponsors conferences, seminars, and symposia.

Originally headquartered in New York, it later moved to California.

Until 2007, it supported LewRockwell.com
LewRockwell.com
LewRockwell.com is a widely read 501 libertarian web magazine operated by Burton Blumert , Lew Rockwell , Eric Garris , and others associated with the Center for Libertarian Studies ; its motto is "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market"...

, website of CLS vice president Lew Rockwell
Lew Rockwell
Llewellyn Harrison Rockwell, Jr. , widely known as Lew Rockwell, is an American libertarian political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute....

.
  • Justin Raimondo
    Justin Raimondo
    Justin Raimondo is an American author and the editorial director of the website Antiwar.com. He describes himself as a "conservative-paleo-libertarian."-Background:...

    , Reclaiming the American Right (1993).
  • Murray Rothbard, Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy (1995).

  1. Methodology of the Austrian School, Lawrence White
  2. The Production of Security, Gustave de Molinari
    Gustave de Molinari
    Gustave de Molinari was an economist born in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille. Living in Paris, in the 1840s, he took part in the "Ligue pour la Liberté des Échanges" , animated by Frédéric...

  3. Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics, Murray Rothbard (1977)
  4. The Political Economy of Liberal Corporativism, essays by Joseph Stromberg, Roy A.
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The Center for Libertarian Studies is a libertarian and anarcho-capitalist oriented educational organization founded in 1976 by Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard was an American intellectual, individualist anarchist, author, and economist of the Austrian School who helped define modern libertarianism and popularized a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism"...

 and Burton Blumert
Burton Blumert
Burton S. Blumert was the president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California, chairman of the Mises Institute, and the publisher of LewRockwell.com...

, which grew out of the Libertarian Scholars Conferences. It published the Journal of Libertarian Studies
Journal of Libertarian Studies
The Journal of Libertarian Studies was a scholarly journal published annually by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.. It was founded in the spring of 1977 by Murray Rothbard who also served as its editor until his death in 1995...

from 1977 to 2000 (now published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute
Ludwig von Mises Institute
The Ludwig von Mises Institute , based in Auburn, Alabama, is a libertarian academic organization engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy. Its scholarship is inspired by the work of Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises...

), a newsletter (In Pursuit of Liberty), several monographs, and sponsors conferences, seminars, and symposia.

Originally headquartered in New York, it later moved to California.

Until 2007, it supported LewRockwell.com
LewRockwell.com
LewRockwell.com is a widely read 501 libertarian web magazine operated by Burton Blumert , Lew Rockwell , Eric Garris , and others associated with the Center for Libertarian Studies ; its motto is "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market"...

, website of CLS vice president Lew Rockwell
Lew Rockwell
Llewellyn Harrison Rockwell, Jr. , widely known as Lew Rockwell, is an American libertarian political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute....

.

Publications

  • Justin Raimondo
    Justin Raimondo
    Justin Raimondo is an American author and the editorial director of the website Antiwar.com. He describes himself as a "conservative-paleo-libertarian."-Background:...

    , Reclaiming the American Right (1993).
  • Murray Rothbard, Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy (1995).

Occasional Papers Series

  1. Methodology of the Austrian School, Lawrence White
  2. The Production of Security, Gustave de Molinari
    Gustave de Molinari
    Gustave de Molinari was an economist born in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille. Living in Paris, in the 1840s, he took part in the "Ligue pour la Liberté des Échanges" , animated by Frédéric...

  3. Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics, Murray Rothbard (1977)
  4. The Political Economy of Liberal Corporativism, essays by Joseph Stromberg, Roy A. Childs, and Roger Alexander
  5. Theory of Classical Liberal "Industrielisme" Augustin Thierry
  6. Why the Futile Crusade? Leonard Liggio
    Leonard Liggio
    Leonard Liggio is a self-described classical liberal author, research professor of law at George Mason University, and executive vice president of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.-Present positions:...

  7. The Clash of Group Interests and Other Essays, Ludwig von Mises
    Ludwig von Mises
    Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian aristocrat, economist, philosopher, author and classical liberal who had a major influence on the modern libertarian movement and the Austrian School.-Early life:...

     (1978)
  8. The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and other essays by Ludwig von Mises, Gottfried Haberler
    Gottfried Haberler
    Gottfried von Haberler was an economist. He worked in particular on international trade.Haberler was born in Austria in 1900, and was educated in the Austrian School of economics. In 1936 he moved to the United States, joining the economics department at Harvard University...

    , Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich A. Hayek (1978)
  9. Austrian Economics: an Annotated Bibliography Richard Ebeling
    Richard Ebeling
    Richard M. Ebeling is an American libertarian author, and was president of the Foundation for Economic Education from 2003 to 2008....

  10. Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué Murray Rothbard (1984)

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