Anti-libertarianism: Markets, philosophy and myth

by Alan Haworth

Book Overview

Free marketeers claim that theirs is the only economic mechanism which respects and furthers human freedom. Socialism, they say, has been thoroughly discredited. Most libertarians treat the state in anything other than its minimal, 'nightwatchman' form as a repressive embodiment of evil. Some reject the state altogether.
But is the 'free market idea' a rationally defensible belief? Or do its proponents fail to examine the philosophical roots of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415082544
• ISBN13: 9780415082549
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"