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The challenge of liberty : classical liberalism today /

The quest for freedom has always been as much a battle of ideas as it is a popular struggle. Classical liberal pioneers such as John Locke and Adam Smith stressed the inherent worth of the individual, inalienable rights, and the benevolent consequences of the cooperative, peaceful pursuit of one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Higgs, Robert
Otros Autores: Close, Carl P., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I: Is classical liberalism still vital? The soul of classical liberalism / James M. Buchanan
  • Economics with romance / Dwight R. Lee
  • From Smith to Menger to Hayek : liberalism in the spontaneous-order tradition / Steven Horwitz
  • Liberalism, loose or strict / Anthony de Jasay
  • pt. II: Freedom and the moral society. On the nature of civil society / Charles K. Rowley
  • Liberty, dignity, and responsibility : the moral triad of a good society / Daniel B. Klein
  • Moral capital and commercial society / Suri Ratnapala
  • Liberalism and the common good : a Hayekian perspective on communitarianism / Linda C. Raeder
  • pt. III: Securing freedom. Securing constitutional government : the perpetual challenge / Suri Ratnapala
  • The primacy of property in a liberal constitutional order : lessons for China / James A. Dorn
  • The will to be free : the role of ideology in national defense / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
  • The inhumanity of government bureaucracies / Hans Sherrer
  • pt. IV: individualism versus "group think." Freedom of religion and public schooling / James R. Otteson
  • Is national rational? / Anthony de Jasay
  • A critique of group loyalty / Laurie Calhoun
  • The therapeutic state : the tyranny of pharmacracy / Thomas S. Szasz
  • pt. V: Classical liberals respond to their critics. What is living and what is dead in classical liberalism / Charles K. Rowley
  • The ways of John Gray : a libertarian commentary / Daniel B. Klein
  • An original omission? : property in Rawls's political thought / Quentin P. Taylor
  • Has John Roemer resurrected market socialism? / Michael Wohlgemuth.