Description: Product DescriptionChallenging the libertarians' definition of freedom and democracy, this study portrays the social philosophy of Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Friedrich Hayek, and George Stigler as the bulwark of an attack on welfare and regulatory state collectivism and as undermining majoritarian democracy, political and civil liberties, and social equality. The book opens with Frank Knight's doctrines and their impact on the Chicago laissez faire economists, places libertarianism within the American tradition of empirical collectivism, and explores Friedrich Hayek's road-to-serfdom thesis within the context of the New Deal. Posing problems of corporate power, it uses Friedman, Stigler, and Buchanan as examples of libertarian denial of these problems and, in a consideration of the debate between the New Left and Libertarian Right, contrasts their ideologies.The work concludes with a his…condition info: Former library copy. May have light markings on pages. Missing dust cover.
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Item Length: 9in
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Author: Rick Tilman
Publication Name: Ideology and Utopia in the Social Philosophy of the Libertarian Economists
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication Year: 2001
Series: Contributions in Economics and Economic History Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
