The promise of liberty a non-utopian vision /

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Main Author: Machan, Tibor R.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective
  • Theorists versus their theories : the case of agent causation
  • Ethics and its controversial assumptions
  • Individualism and human success
  • Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy
  • Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty
  • Human rights and poverty
  • Rights, values, regulation, and health care
  • The morality of smoking
  • Philosophy, physics, and common sense
  • The calculation problem and the tragedy of the commons
  • Government budget crises
  • Some reflections on the right to private property
  • Revisiting a critique of libertarianism
  • Leo Strauss, neo-conservative?
  • Tocqueville and Rand, contrasting views of individualism
  • Can and should the constitution be rescued?
  • The distraction of anarchism
  • "Intellectual" stuff and the right to private property
  • Fetal rights : implications of a supposed ought
  • 1985 speculation : the fate of Soviet colonies after the fall
  • Does one have a right to be wrong?
  • Reflections on democracy
  • Altruism (stakeholder theory) versus business ethics
  • Yes, individualists should respect others' rights.