The Center for Libertarian Studies (CLS) was a libertarian and

anarcho-capitalist Anarcho-capitalism (or, colloquially, ancap) is an anti-statist, libertarian, and anti-political philosophy and economic theory that seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enfo ...

oriented educational organization founded in 1976 by

Murray Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Rothbard was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian ...

and

Burton Blumert Burton S. Blumert (; February 11, 1929 – March 30, 2009) was the president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California, co-founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, and the publisher of LewRockwell.com. In a career that sp ...

, which grew out of the Libertarian Scholars Conferences. That year, the conference was sponsored by industrialist and libertarian

Charles Koch Charles de Ganahl Koch ( ; born November 1, 1935) is an American billionaire businessman. As of November 2022, he was ranked as the 13th richest person in the world on ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'', with an estimated net worth of $66 billio ...

. It published the ''

Journal of Libertarian Studies Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, or Mises Institute, is a libertarian nonprofit think tank headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, United States. It is named after the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). It wa ...

'' from 1977 to 2000 (now published by the

Ludwig von Mises Institute Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, or Mises Institute, is a libertarian nonprofit think tank headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, United States. It is named after the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). It ...

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

Publications

Justin Raimondo Justin Raimondo (born Dennis Raimondo; November 18, 1951 – June 27, 2019) was an American author and the editorial director of Antiwar.com. He described himself as a "conservative- paleo-libertarian." Early life Born in White Plains, New Y ...

, ''Reclaiming the American Right'' (1993). * Joseph Sobran, ''How I Got Fired by Bill Buckley'' (1994). * Justin Raimondo, ''Clinton's Hate Campaign Against the Right: the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Campaign to Crush Dissent'' (1995) * Murray Rothbard, ''Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy'' (1995). * ''The Rothbard-Rockwell Report'' (1990–1999); * Rockwell, Jr, Llewellyn H., editor, ''The Irrepressible Rothbard: The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Essays of Murray N. Rothbard'' (2000)

Occasional Papers Series

# ''Methodology of the Austrian School'', Lawrence White # ''The Production of Security'',

Gustave de Molinari Gustave de Molinari (; 3 March 1819 – 28 January 1912) was a Belgian political economist and French Liberal School theorist associated with French ''laissez-faire'' economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille. Biography B ...

# ''Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics'', Murray Rothbard (1977) # ''The Political Economy of Liberal Corporativism'', essays by Joseph Stromberg, Roy A. Childs, and Roger Alexander # ''Theory of Classical Liberal "Industrielisme"'', Augustin Thierry # ''Why the Futile Crusade?'',

Leonard Liggio Leonard P. Liggio (July 5, 1933 – October 14, 2014) was a classical liberal author, research professor of law at George Mason University and executive vice president of the Atlas Network in Fairfax, Virginia. Career In 1965, Liggio gave lectu ...

# ''The Clash of Group Interests and Other Essays'',

Ludwig von Mises Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and Sociology, sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberali ...

(1978) # ''The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle'' and other essays by Ludwig von Mises,

Gottfried Haberler Gottfried von Haberler (; July 20, 1900 – May 6, 1995) was an Austrian-American economist. He worked in particular on international trade. One of his major contributions was reformulating the David Ricardo, Ricardian idea of comparative advant ...

, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich A. Hayek, Richard Ebeling, ed. (1978) # ''Austrian Economics: an Annotated Bibliography'',

Richard Ebeling __NOTOC__ Richard M. Ebeling (; born January 30, 1950) is an American libertarian author who was the president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2003 to 2008. Ebeling is currently the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and F ...

# '' Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué'', Murray Rothbard (1984)

References

External links

Nozick and Rothbard at the WTC
by Burton S. Blumert at lewrockwell.com
Online archive of the Journal of Libertarian Studies
{{DEFAULTSORT:Center For Libertarian Studies Anarcho-capitalist organizations Paleolibertarianism Political and economic think tanks in the United States Libertarian think tanks Libertarian organizations based in the United States Mises Institute