Anti-libertarianism : markets, philosophy, and myth / Alan Haworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haworth, Alan, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libertarianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Summary:

Free marketeers claim that theirs is the only economic mechanism which respects and furthers human freedom. Socialism, they say, has been thoroughly discredited. Most libertarians treat the state in anything other than its minimal, 'nightwatchman' form as a repressive embodiment of evil. Some reject the state altogether.But is the 'free market idea' a rationally defensible belief? Or do its proponents fail to examine the philosophical roots of their so-called freedom? Anti-libertarianism takes a sceptical look at the conceptual tenets of free market politics. Alan Haworth argues t

Contents:

Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I; Chapter 1. Libertarianism - anti-libertarianism; Chapter 2. Market romances I; Chapter 3. Reducibility, freedom, the invisible hand; Chapter 4. Market romances II; Chapter 5. On freedom; Chapter 6. The legend of the angels and the fable of the bees; Part II; Chapter 7. Moralising the market; Chapter 8. Rights, wrongs and rhetoric; Chapter 9. Visions of Valhalla; Part Ill; Chapter 10. The good fairy's wand; Chapter 11. Hayek and the hand of fate; Chapter 12. Conclusions and postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-146) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-89071-0

1-134-89072-9

1-280-56262-5

9786610562626

0-203-00371-3

9780203003718

OCLC:

817916179