| Description |
xiii, 392 p. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- Philosophy.
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Free enterprise -- Philosophy.
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Economics -- Philosophy.
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| ISBN |
9780739126486 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0739126482 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780739126479 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0739126474 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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