The Ethics of Liberty / / Murray N. Rothbard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Rothbard, Murray N.,
• MitwirkendeR: Hoppe, Hans-Hermann,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hoppe, Hans-Hermann.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I: INTRODUCTION: NATURAL LAW -- 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 -- PART II: A THEORY OF LIBERTY -- 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 -- PART III: THE STATE VERSUS LIBERTY -- 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 -- PART IV: MODERN ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF LIBERTY -- 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 -- PART V: TOWARD A THEORY OF STRATEGY FOR LIBERTY -- 30. Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX