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Lexington Books
Language
English
Pages
297

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Subjects
Liberty, Philosophy

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective
Theorists v. their theories : the case of agent causation
Ethics and its controversial assumptions : individualism & 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 & the tragedy of the common
Government budget crises
Right to private property
Revisiting a critique
Leo Strauss & neo-conservatism
Tocqueville & Ayn Rand
Should the constitution be rescued?
Distraction of anarchism
On owning intellectual stuff
Fetal rights & liberty
Speculation on post-communism
The right to be wrong
Reflections on democracy
The flaws of stakeholder theory
Individualism should respect rights.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.01/1
Library of Congress
B105.L45 M24 2008, B105.L45M24 2008, B105.L45 M24 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
297

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OL22541704M
Internet Archive
promiseliberty00mach
ISBN 10
0739130749, 0739130765
ISBN 13
9780739130742, 9780739130766
LCCN
2008039286
OCLC/WorldCat
253839231

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