Anti-libertarianism : Markets, philosophy and myth.

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. S...

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Main Author: Haworth, Alan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Table of 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.