User:APG2000/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title: Libertarian perspectives on immigration
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is of "Low" importance and of "Start" quality in the Libertarianism WikiProject. I select it as a possibility since it is a relatively niche topic about which I have some knowledge from reading various different authors. My major is philosophy, which covers a wide range of topics, and the libertarian debates around immigration draw heavily on philosophical arguments from different sides. As it stands, the article is pretty sparsely filled in and I think I could supplement it with the viewpoints of at least a few different authors. It also covers only one side of the debate, namely, the pro-immigration, which leaves the article quite unbalanced. I think I could fill it in more with views from the other side, and possibly supplement the first side as well.
 * This article is of "Low" importance and of "Start" quality in the Libertarianism WikiProject. I select it as a possibility since it is a relatively niche topic about which I have some knowledge from reading various different authors. My major is philosophy, which covers a wide range of topics, and the libertarian debates around immigration draw heavily on philosophical arguments from different sides. As it stands, the article is pretty sparsely filled in and I think I could supplement it with the viewpoints of at least a few different authors. It also covers only one side of the debate, namely, the pro-immigration, which leaves the article quite unbalanced. I think I could fill it in more with views from the other side, and possibly supplement the first side as well.


 * Sources
 * Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. “The Case for Free Trade and Restricted Immigration.” Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1998, pp. 221–233. https://cdn.mises.org/13_2_8_0.pdf
 * Block, Walter. “A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration.” Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1998, pp. 167–186.
 * https://cdn.mises.org/13_2_4_0.pdf

Option 2

 * Article title: Libertarian theories of law
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is again of "Mid" importance and "Start" quality in the same WikiProject. And again, I select it as a possibility since it is an area with which I am familiar through a lot of my own reading and draws heavily on philosophical argumentation. The article really only gives a barebones outline of some of the main ideas surrounding libertarian law, and references some important thinkers in the field. It doesn't really give any substantive attention to any particular theory of libertarian law, which is quite a diverse and rich topic. I think I could fill this article in by at least providing some actual details about different theories. (Though I do wonder as to whether this would seem narrow or biased, given that there are so many out there, and attention given to any particular theorist's views would have to neglect many others.
 * This article is again of "Mid" importance and "Start" quality in the same WikiProject. And again, I select it as a possibility since it is an area with which I am familiar through a lot of my own reading and draws heavily on philosophical argumentation. The article really only gives a barebones outline of some of the main ideas surrounding libertarian law, and references some important thinkers in the field. It doesn't really give any substantive attention to any particular theory of libertarian law, which is quite a diverse and rich topic. I think I could fill this article in by at least providing some actual details about different theories. (Though I do wonder as to whether this would seem narrow or biased, given that there are so many out there, and attention given to any particular theorist's views would have to neglect many others.

Sources

Barnett, Randy E. The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule Of Law. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Rothbard, Murray N. The Ethics of Liberty. New York University Press, 2014. https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Ethics%20of%20Liberty%2020191108.pdf

Option 3

 * Article title: Interventionism (book)
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article does not exist yet. It is a book by economist Ludwig von Mises that I have read and I think might be worthy of its own article. Books of similar status by Mises already have their own article (Liberalism (book), Omnipotent Government), which makes me think that Interventionism might deserve its own article as well. I'm not quite sure what the criteria are for creating an article about a book. Is there a certain metric to determine sufficient notability, or is it totally subjective? My intuition says that Interventionism is sufficiently noteworthy to warrant its own article.
 * This article does not exist yet. It is a book by economist Ludwig von Mises that I have read and I think might be worthy of its own article. Books of similar status by Mises already have their own article (Liberalism (book), Omnipotent Government), which makes me think that Interventionism might deserve its own article as well. I'm not quite sure what the criteria are for creating an article about a book. Is there a certain metric to determine sufficient notability, or is it totally subjective? My intuition says that Interventionism is sufficiently noteworthy to warrant its own article.


 * Sources
 * Von Mises, Ludwig. Interventionism: An Economic Analysis. Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2011. https://cdn.mises.org/Critique%20of%20Interventionism,%20A_3.pdf

(Is it necessary to find other sources mentioning the book? The only reviews I can find of it don't seem to be of a scholarly character. See: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/book-review-critique-interventionism/)

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