1st Edition

Anti-libertarianism Markets, philosophy and myth

By Alan Haworth Copyright 1994
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Part 1 Part I; Chapter 1 Libertarianism - Anti-Libertarianism; Chapter 2 Market Romances I; Chapter 3 Reducibility, Freedom, the Invisible Hand; Chapter 4 Market Romances II; Chapter 5 On Freedom; Chapter 6 The Legend of the Angels and the Fable of the Bees; Part 2 Part II; Chapter 7 Moralising the Market; Chapter 8 Rights, Wrongs and Rhetoric; Chapter 9 Visions of Valhalla; Part 3 Part III; Chapter 10 The Good Fairy’s Wand; Chapter 11 Hayek and the Hand of Fate; Chapter 12 Conclusions and Postscript;

Biography

Alan Haworth is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of North London.