The Ethics of Liberty

出版者:NYU Press

作者:Murray N. Rothbard

页数:308

出版时间:1998-5-1

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780814775066

具体描述

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position.

What distinguishes Rothbard's book is the manner in which it roots the case for freedom in the concept of natural rights and applies it to a host of practical problems. An economist by profession, Rothbard here proves himself equally at home with philosophy. And while his conclusions are radical—that a social order that strictly adheres to the rights of private property must exclude the institutionalized violence inherent in the state—his applications of libertarian principles prove surprisingly practical for a host of social dilemmas, solutions to which have eluded alternative traditions.

The Ethics of Liberty authoritatively established the anarcho-capitalist economic system as the most viable and the only principled option for a social order based on freedom. This edition is newly indexed and includes a new introduction that takes special note of the Robert Nozick-Rothbard controversies.

作者简介

Murray N. Rothbard, a scholar of extraordinary range, made major contributions to economics, history, political philosophy, and legal theory. He developed and extended the Austrian economics of Ludwig von Mises, in whose seminar he was a main participant for many years. He established himself as the principal Austrian theorist in the latter half of the twentieth century and applied Austrian analysis to historical topics such as the Great Depression of 1929 and the history of American banking.

Rothbard was no ivory-tower scholar, interested only in academic controversies. Quite the contrary, he combined Austrian economics with a fervent commitment to individual liberty. He developed a unique synthesis that combined themes from nineteenth-century American individualists such as Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker with Austrian economics. A new political philosophy was the result, and Rothbard devoted his remarkable intellectual energy, over a period of some forty-five years, to developing and promoting his style of libertarianism. In doing so, he became a major American public intellectual.

目录信息

Contents:
PART I: Introduction: Natural Law
Natural Law and Reason
Natural Law as "Science"
Natural Law versus Positive Law
Natural Law and Natural Rights
The Task of Political Philosophy
PART II: A Theory Of Liberty
A Crusoe Social Philosophy
Interpersonal Relations: Voluntary Exchange
Interpersonal Relations: Ownership and Aggression
Property and Criminality
The Problem of Land Theft
Land Monopoly, Past and Present
Self-Defense
Punishment and Proportionality
Children and Rights
"Human Rights" as Property Rights
Knowledge, True and False
Bribery
The Boycott
Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts
Lifeboat Situations
The "Rights" of Animals
PART III: The State Versus Liberty
The Nature of the State
The Inner Contradictions of the State
The Moral Status of Relations to the State
On Relations Between States
PART IV: Modern Alternative Theories of Liberty
Utilitarian Free-Market Economics
Introduction: Utilitarian Social Philosophy
The Unanimity and Compensation Principles
Ludwig von Mises and "Value-Free" Laissez Faire
Isaiah Berlin on Negative Freedom
F.A. Hayek and the Concept of Coercion
Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State
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用户评价

比起那些用深奥的理论教你跪下的教科书，这本书用简单易懂的文字手把手的教会你怎么站起来！

从当年的民主百问改编的

开头的狗血是幌子，虽然也有cliche，不过以作为教科书的尺度，已经很难得。什么时候才能实现？

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