Fb2 What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation ePub
by Charles Murray
Category: | Politics and Government |
Subcategory: | Political books |
Author: | Charles Murray |
ISBN: | 0767900391 |
ISBN13: | 978-0767900393 |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Broadway Books; Reprint edition (December 29, 1997) |
Pages: | 196 |
Fb2 eBook: | 1790 kb |
ePub eBook: | 1637 kb |
Digital formats: | doc txt azw lrf |
Charles Murray's short book on libertarian is a personal synopsis or, better yet, a precis of the libertarian experience.
Charles Murray's short book on libertarian is a personal synopsis or, better yet, a precis of the libertarian experience.
Charles Murray gives an eloquent defense of libertarianism, defending freedom at a time when it is under attack from .
Charles Murray gives an eloquent defense of libertarianism, defending freedom at a time when it is under attack from left wing academics. Building on arguments put forth by scholars such as Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick, and Richard Epstein, Murray gives explicit recommendations for how to reduce the power and scope of government, and expand individual freedom. This book is a series of short chapters and thought experiments on what we could do to radically shrink our government and actually free ourselves to live our lives the way we think best. The book is in three sections. In the first he lays out the framework of what limited government would actually mean.
Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right-strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society
Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right-strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society. InWhat It Means to Be a Libertarian,he proposes a government reduced to the barest essentials: an executive branch consisting only of the White House and trimmed-down departments of state, defense, justice, and environment protection; a Congress so limited in power that it meets only a few months each year; and a federal code stripped of all but a handful of regulations.
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A LIBERTARIAN: A PERSONAL INTERPRETATION Charles Murray Broadway Books, 1997, xiii + 178 pgs. Unless you agree with Emerson that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, you will find little in this ill- thought-out book to like. Ostensibly a brief introduction to libertarianism, Murray's book fuses contradictory principles in an unstable amalgam.
Murray’s elegantly written book is dedicated to helping us do just that. Whether he’s right or not will become evident in the years ahead
Murray’s elegantly written book is dedicated to helping us do just that. His premise is simple: Force is bad, and cooperation is good. The reason force is bad, he explains, is that we own ourselves. Whether he’s right or not will become evident in the years ahead.
Best defence of libertarianism I have read in a long time. Lucid and short, and written from a ethical, almost communitarian perspective on what is best for society - individual happiness. whiteberg, March 17, 2009.
After considering the role and importance of asymmetric information, relative immobility of labor, and unemployment in the formation of labor and consumption goods markets, this paper concludes that there is a positive role for the state in the construction of just and efficient markets.
Charles Murray believes that America’s founders had it right-strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society. Combining the tenets of classical Libertarian philosophy with his own highly-original, always provocative thinking, Murray shows why less government advances individual happiness and promotes more vital communities and a richer culture. By applying the truths our founders held to be self-evident to today’s most urgent social and political problems, he creates a clear, workable vision for the future.