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Champions of a Free Society
Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists
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2008
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This book is constructed around great thinkers of the past and present who have been influential in developing the philosophy of freedom. Its main purpose is to provide a survey and overview of the ideas of leading individual philosophers and economists of capitalism who have contributed to developing what might be called the classical liberal or libertarian worldview. Champions of a Free Society endeavors to provide a guide to political and economic thinking about the desirability and construction of a free society that is intelligible to the educated layperson. Edward Younkins provides an historical perspective of the pursuit of political and economic truth. The goal of this book is to present the development of ideas in language that permits generally educated readers to understand and appreciate their significance. The book's chronological approach considers the thinkers and their ideas as they have developed over the course of time. There is much unfulfilled illuminative potential to be found in the ideas of the past and Younkins successfully integrates the ideas of past and current thinkers into a logical contemporary worldview.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2648-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3053-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
393
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
1 Lao Tzu's Naturalistic Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics No access
2 Aristotle and Human Flourishing No access
3 Aristotle and Economics No access
4 Epicurus on Freedom and Happiness No access
5 Thomas Aquinas's Christian Aristotelianism No access
6 Spinoza on Freedom, Ethics, and Politics No access
7 John Locke's Limited State No access
8 Turgot on Progress and Political Economy No access
9 Adam Smith's Moral and Economic System No access
10 Jean-Baptiste Say's Law of Markets: A Fundamental, Conceptual Integration No access
11 Herbert Spencer on Liberty and Human Progress No access
12 Carl Menger's Economics of Well-Being No access
13 Ludwig von Mises on Human Action No access
14 Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism No access
15 Murray Rothbard's Randian Austrianism No access
16 The Road to Objective Economics: Hayek Takes a Wrong Tum No access
17 Milton Friedman's Pragmatic and Incremental Libertarianism No access
18 Mises, Friedman, and Rand: A Methodological Comparison No access
19 James M. Buchanan: Constitutional and Post-Constitutional Political Economy No access
20 Robert Nozick's Libertarian Framework for Utopias No access
21 Reality Is Not Optional: Thomas Sowell's Vision of Man and Society No access
22 Michael Novak's Vision of Democratic Capitalism No access
23 Revisiting the Intellectual Heritage of a Free Society No access
24 Developing a Paradigm for a Free Society No access
