The Ethics of LibertyIn recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classicThe Ethics of Libertystands 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 Libertyauthoritatively 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. |
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xxii |
PREFACE | xxxvii |
Natural Law versus Positive | 3 |
A Crusoe Social Philosophy | 29 |
Voluntary Exchange | 35 |
Ownership and Aggression | 49 |
The Problem of Land Theft | 63 |
Land Monopoly Past and Present | 69 |
Bribery | 129 |
Lifeboat Situations | 149 |
The Rights of Animals | 155 |
The Nature of the State | 161 |
The Inner Contradictions of the State | 175 |
The Moral Status of Relations to the State | 183 |
On Relations Between States | 189 |
MODERN ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF LIBERTY | 199 |
SelfDefense | 77 |
Children and Rights | 97 |
Human Rights As Property Rights | 113 |
Knowledge True and False | 121 |
Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty | 257 |
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