The Ethics of Liberty Murray N. Rothbard ; with a new introduction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothbard, Murray N. (Murray Newton), 1926-1995.

Contributor:

Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, Contributor.

Hoppe, Hans-Hermann.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages)

Edition:

1. paperback ed., [Nachdr. d. Ausg. Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1982].

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Univ. Press, 2002.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position. What distinguishes Rothbard's book is the manner in which it roots the case for freedom in the concept of natural rights and applies it to a host of practical problems. An economist by profession, Rothbard here proves himself equally at home with philosophy. And while his conclusions are radical—that a social order that strictly adheres to the rights of private property must exclude the institutionalized violence inherent in the state—his applications of libertarian principles prove surprisingly practical for a host of social dilemmas, solutions to which have eluded alternative traditions. The Ethics of Liberty authoritatively established the anarcho-capitalist economic system as the most viable and the only principled option for a social order based on freedom. This edition is newly indexed and includes a new introduction that takes special note of the Robert Nozick-Rothbard controversies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

1. Natural Law and Reason

2. Natural Law as "Science"

3. Natural Law versus Positive Law

4. Natural Law and Natural Rights

5. The Task of Political Philosophy

6. A Crusoe Social Philosophy

7. Interpersonal Relations: Voluntary Exchange

8. Interpersonal Relations: Ownership and Aggression

9. Property and Criminality

10. The Problem of Land Theft

11. Land Monopoly, Past and Present

12. Self-Defense

13. Punishment and Proportionality

14. Children and Rights

15. "Human Rights'' As Property Rights

16. Knowledge, True and False

17. Bribery

18. The Boycott

19. Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts

20. Lifeboat Situations

21. The "Rights" of Animals

22. The Nature of the State

23. The Inner Contradictions of the State

24. The Moral Status of Relations to the State

25. On Relations Between States

26. Utilitarian Free-Market Economics

27. Isaiah Berlin on Negative Freedom

28. EA. Hayek and The Concept of Coercion

29. Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State

30. Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-9549-0

OCLC:

957551929