Champions of a free society : ideas of capitalism's philosophers and economists /
This book is written for individuals who want to learn about the philosophical foundations of political and economic freedom. It is an introduction and a guide to the principal theoretical ideas on liberty produced by the most influential and creative thinkers in history, with chapters on Adam Smith...
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Table of Contents:
- Lao Tzu's naturalistic metaphysics, ethics, and politics
- Aristotle and human flourishing
- Aristotle and economics
- Epicurus on freedom and happiness
- Thomas Aquinas's Christian Aristotelianism
- Spinoza on freedom, ethics, and politics
- John Locke's limited state
- Turgot on progress and political economy
- Adam Smith's moral and economic system
- Jean-Baptiste Say's law of markets : a fundamental, conceptual integration
- Herbert Spencer on liberty and human progress
- Carl Menger's economics of well-being
- Ludwig von Mises on human action
- Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism
- Murray Rothbard's Randian Austrianism
- The road to objective economics : Hayek takes a wrong turn
- Milton Friedman's pragmatic and incremental libertarianism
- Mises, Friedman, and Rand : a methodological comparison
- James M. Buchanan : constitutional and post-constitutional political economy
- Robert Nozick's libertarian framework for utopias
- Reality is not optional : Thomas Sowell's vision of man and society
- Michael Novak's vision of democratic capitalism
- Revisiting the intellectual heritage of a free society
- Developing a paradigm for a free society.
