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- Full Title: The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to Milton Friedman
- Author(s): Edited by David Boaz
- Year Published: 1997
- Publisher: The Free Press
- Publication Type: Commercial
- ISBN-10: 0-684-83200-3 (hardcover), 0-684-84767-1 (paperback)
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- Description: This anthology of "libertarian" texts includes an interview with Ayn Rand and an article about her political theory. This book should not be confused with the earlier essay collection with the same title, which was edited by Tibor Machan.
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Since this is anthology of writings taken from multiple sources, the source of each item is indicated in brackets after the title of the item. Chapters significantly related to Objectivism are indicated in bold.
- Introduction
- Part One. Skepticism About Power
- I Samuel 8 [The Bible]
- Of the Origin and Design of Government [Thomas Paine, Common Sense]
- Federalist no. 10 [James Madison]
- What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear [Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America]
- Objections to Government Interference [John Stuart Mill, On Liberty]
- More of the Same [H.L. Mencken, American Mercury]
- The Humanitarian with the Guillotine [Isabel Patterson, The God of the Machine]
- The State [Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty]
- Self-Interest and the Constitution [Richard Epstein, Journal of Legal Education]
- Part Two. Individualism and Society
- Understanding Can Not Be Compelled [John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration]
- Justice and Beneficence [Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments]
- The Subjugation of Women [Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]
- The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with That of the Moderns [Benjamin Constant]
- Associations in Civil Life [Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America]
- Interest Rightly Understood [Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America]
- Man Cannot Hold Property in Man [William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of the Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention]
- You Are a Man, and So Am I [Frederick Douglas]
- A Human Being Cannot Be Justly Owned [William Ellery Channing, Slavery]
- Rights and Responsibilities of Women [Angelina Grimki]
- Woman as a Moral Being [Sarah Grimki]
- Of Individuality [John Stuart Mill, On Liberty]
- On Equality and Inequality [Ludwig von Mises, Modern Age]
- The Tendrils of Community [Charles Murray, In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government]
- Private Prejudice, Private Remedy [Dough Bandow, The Freeman]
- Part Three. Individual Rights
- An Arrow Against All Tyrants [Richard Overton]
- Of Property and Government [John Locke, Second Treatise of Government]
- Justice and Property [David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature]]
- The Declaration of Independence [Thomas Jefferson]
- Equality of Rights [Immanuel Kant]
- The Right to Ignore the State [Herbert Spencer, Social Statics]
- The Constitution of No Authority [Lysander Spooner, No Treason]
- The Playboy Interview with Ayn Rand [Alvin Toffler, Playboy]
- Ayn Rand on Rights and Capitalism [Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen, The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand]
- The Entitlement Theory of Justice [Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia]
- The Right to Do Wrong [Roger Pilon]
- Part Four. Spontaneous Order
- Harmony [Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching]
- The Man of System [Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments]
- Of Society and Civilization [Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man]
- The Use of Knowledge in Society [F.A. Hayek]
- Two Kinds of Order [Michael Polanyi, The Logic of Liberty]
- Made Orders and Spontaneous Orders [F.A. Hayek, Law, Legislation, and Liberty]
- Economy as Ecosystem [Michael Rothschild, Bionomics]
- Part Five. Free Markets and Voluntary Order
- The Division of Labor [Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations]
- Society and Self-Interest [Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations]
- Labor and Commerce [Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations]
- Free Trade [Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations]
- The Simple System of Natural Liberty [Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations]
- What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen [Frederic Bastiat]
- Socialism and Intervention [Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism]
- Redistributing Power [Bertrand de Jourvenel, The Ethics of Redistribution]
- The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom [Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom]
- The Market Order or Catallaxy [F.A. Hayek, Law, Legislation, and Liberty]
- If You're Paying, I'll Have Top Sirloin [Russell Roberts, The Wall Street Journal]
- Part Six. Peace and International Harmony
- Commerce Is the Grand Panacea [Richard Cobden]
- Nonintervention [Richard Cobden]
- The Eclipse of Liberalism [The Nation]
- Peace [Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism]
- The Case for Strategic Disengagement [Earl C. Ravenal, Foreign Affairs]
- Toward Strategic Independence [Ted Galen Carpenter, Brown Journal of World Affairs]
- Part Seven. The Libertarian Future
- Capitalism and the Permissive Society [Samuel Brittan, A Restatement of Economic Liberalism]
- Liberalism in the Coming Decade [Antonio Martino]
- The Power and Poverty of Libertarian Thought [Richard Cornuelle, Times Literary Supplement]
- The Culture of Liberty [Mario Vargas Llosa, Journal of Democracy]
- Governments in Decline [Norman Macrae]
- Paternalist Government Is Out of Date [Michael Prowse, The Independent]
- "Creative Destruction" and the Innovation Age [Peter K. Pitsch]
- Evolutionary Ecology [Lynn Scarlett, Reason]
- The Future of Government [John Perry Barlow, Spin]
- The Literature of Liberty [Tom G. Palmer]
- Sources
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