The Center for Libertarian Studies was a libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

 and anarcho-capitalist oriented educational organization founded in 1976 by Murray Rothbard

Murray Rothbard

Murray Newton Rothbard was an American author and economist of the Austrian School who helped define capitalist libertarianism and popularized a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism." Rothbard wrote over twenty books and is considered a centrally important figure in the...

 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 is a scholarly journal published annually by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Lew Rockwell. It was established 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 Burlingame, California

Burlingame, California

Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County, California. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula and has a significant shoreline on San Francisco Bay. The city is named after diplomat Anson Burlingame. It is renowned for its many surviving examples of Victorian architecture, its affluence, and...

.

Until 2007, it supported LewRockwell.com

LewRockwell.com

LewRockwell.com is a 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"...

, web publication of CLS vice president Lew Rockwell

Lew Rockwell

Llewellyn Harrison "Lew" Rockwell, Jr. is an American libertarian political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.-Life and work:...

. It had also previously supported Antiwar.com

Antiwar.com

Antiwar.com is a website devoted to opposing aggressive war, imperialism, and assaults on freedom associated with both. The editors describe their politics as libertarian. Their stated motiviation is, "to show how the imperialistic tendencies of the American government lead to a loss of civil...

.

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).
• Joseph Sobran
  Joseph Sobran
  Michael Joseph Sobran, Jr. was an American journalist and writer, formerly with National Review and a syndicated columnist, known as Joe Sobran. Pundit Pat Buchanan called Sobran "perhaps the finest columnist of our generation", although Sobran was fired from National Review by his one-time mentor...
  
  , 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).

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 Belgium 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 Bastiat...
   
   
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 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 economist, philosopher, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern Libertarian movement and the "Austrian School" of economic thought.-Biography:-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....
   
   , Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich A. Hayek, Richard Ebeling, ed. (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)

External links

• Nozick and Rothbard at the WTC by Burton S. Blumert at lewrockwell.com