Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The essays in this volume assess the strength and impact of market liberal or libertarian political theory, which, broadly conceived, advocates a more carefully circumscribed role for the state and a greater reliance on the ability of individuals and voluntary, private-sector institutions to confront social problems. They offer insights into the limits of government, develop market-oriented solutions to pressing social problems, and explore some defects in traditional libertarian theory and practice.
Synopsis
The essays in this collection offer insights into the limits of government, develop market-oriented solutions to pressing social problems, and explore some defects in traditional libertarian theory and practice.
Table of Contents
1. Why all welfare states (including laissez-faire ones) are unreasonable; 2. Measuring opportunity: toward a contractarian measure of individual interest; 3. Deontic restrictions are not agent-relative restrictions; 4. Why even egalitarians should favor market health insurance; 5. Affirmative action and the demands of justice; 6. The dual role of property rights in protecting broadcast speech; 7. Regulation of foods and drugs and libertarian ideals: perspectives of a fellow-traveler; 8. Profit: the concept and its moral features; 9. Natural property rights: where they fail; 10. Toward a libertarian theory of class; 11. Libertarianism as if (the other 99 percent of) people mattered; 12. On the failure of libertarianism to capture the Popular Imagination; 13. Imitations of libertarian thought.