Estudios Libertarios is an open access academic journal that emerged with the purpose of addressing the problems of contemporary society from the intellectual rigor offered by the Austro-Libertarian tradition. As part of its editorial philosophy, it aims to generate a meeting point between the most outstanding minds in this branch of political philosophy, who participate in each edition with original articles or translations of already published works.
Like Murray N. Rothbard, we consider libertarianism to be an emerging discipline that is related to different areas of the study of human action, such as economics, philosophy, political theory, history and even biology, which provide the foundations and application of libertarianism, and we hope that one day the “Science of Freedom,” as Rothbard called it, will be part of the academic curriculum.
The journal promotes libertarianism not only as a theory, but as a practical and applicable philosophy of life. Therefore, we look for pieces that offer libertarian solutions to everyday problems, such as the fight against crime, traffic congestion, pollution or the deficiencies of the educational system, as well as those that propose ways to reduce the influence of the State in personal life. In this sense, we also focus on topics such as global mobility, financial freedom and entrepreneurship, key areas to strengthen individual freedom.
We believe in the balance between theory and practice. We do not reduce libertarianism to an abstraction without a link to reality, nor do we fall into the opposite extreme of valuing only practice, disdaining all intellectual exercise. We are aware that theory without experience is sterile, and experience without theory is blind.