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Governing Least - A New England Libertarianism (Hardcover)
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Governing Least - A New England Libertarianism (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Political Philosophy
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"That government is best which governs least." - Henry David
Thoreau In this major new defense of libertarianism, Dan Moller
argues that critics and supporters alike have neglected the
strongest arguments for the theory. It is often assumed that
libertarianism depends on thinking that property rights are
absolute, or on fetishizing individual liberty. Moller argues that,
on the contrary, the foundations of libertarianism lie in widely
shared, everyday moral beliefs - particularly in restrictions on
shifting our burdens onto others. The core of libertarianism, on
this "New England" interpretation, is not an exaggerated sense of
our rights against other people, but modesty about what we can
demand from them. Moller then connects these philosophical
arguments with related work in economics, history, and politics.
The result is a wide-ranging discussion in the classical liberal
tradition that defies narrow academic specialization. Among the
questions Moller addresses are how to think about private property
in a service economy, whether libertarians should support
reparations for slavery, what the history of capitalism tells us
about free markets, and what role political correctness plays in
shaping policy debates.
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