Encyclopedia of Libertarianism

The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism is the first comprehensive, encyclopedic treatment of the libertarian movement.

Charles Murray

Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Jason Kuznicki

Jason Kuznicki was a senior fellow and the editor of Cato Books and of Cato Unbound, the Cato Institute’s online journal of debate. His first book, Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For? (Palgrave, 2017) surveys western political theory from a libertarian perspective. Kuznicki was an assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. He also contributed a chapter to libertarianism.org’s Visions of Liberty. He earned a PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University in 2005, where his work was offered both a Fulbright Fellowship and a Chateaubriand Prize.

Ronald Hamowy
William Galston

Featuring the Editor in Chief, Ronald Hamowy, with comments by Charles Murray, a W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; William Galston, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Moderated by Jason Kuznicki Research Fellow, Cato Institute. The Cato Institute unveils The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, the first comprehensive, encyclopedic treatment of the libertarian movement. Editor in Chief Ronald Hamowy, a distinguished scholar who studied under Mises, Hayek, and Friedman, has included more than 300 succinct, original articles on libertarian ideas, institutions, and thinkers. Contributors include James Buchanan, Richard Epstein, Tyler Cowen, Randy Barnett, Deirdre McCloskey, Ellen Frankel Paul, and more than 100 other scholars. This comprehensive book, years in the making, will become an indispensable guide to libertarianism in the years to come. Our distinguished guests will discuss the place of libertarianism in world and U.S. politics, the contributions of libertarian thought, and the challenges it faces from both left and right.