The 2008 election plot thickens, the economy wobbles, raising a query: What is libertarianism and how does it sway election and economic thinking? Welcome this book then on and for libertarianism. Libertarianism. What a word, what a mindset. Mindsetter Boaz has been a big player in the libertarian movement for some 30 years. He is executive vice president of the Cato Institute, author of "Libertarianism: A Primer," translated into nine languages, and editor of "The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman." He has also penned hundreds of essays, op-eds, and other short pieces.
... books, including the acclaimed Libertarianism: A Primer and the newly released Politics of Freed...
...Boaz, David. 1997. Libertarianism: A Primer. New York: Free Press. Otsuka, Michael. 2003. Libe...
...As David Boaz, author of Libertarianism: A Primer, points out, businesses and nonprofits d...
Conservatives have been very critical of the Golden Globe- winning film "Avatar" for its mystical melange of trite leftist themes. But what they have missed is that the essential conflict in the story is a battle over property rights. Avatar," written and directed by James Cameron and set in 2154, is the story of young American Jake Sully, who joins a military mission to the distant moon Pandora, which has a supply of an expensive and almost impossible-to-obtain mineral (thus its name, "unobtainium"). Living among the tall, blue natives in the form of an "avatar" -- a lab-created body hooked up by Wi-Fi to his own brain -- Sully comes to doubt his mission and to join the Na'vi people in resisting the earthlings' designs on their land.
... Cato Institute and the author of "Libertarianism: A Primer" and "The Politics of Freedom." He wrote...
Republicans are criticizing a decorated Vietnam veteran, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry, while liberals are denouncing President Bush for avoiding service in what liberals called an illegal and immoral war. That sort of reversal might seem odd if it wasn't so reminiscent of other partisan battles over the past decade. Washington has become mired in a Red Team-Blue Team battle that leads partisans on both sides into rank hypocrisy. Just think back to the Clinton years: Conservatives used to think that sexual harassment laws were a good example of big government trying to regulate everything under the sun. Feminists, they thought, wanted to criminalize normal flirting and dating. Feminists pushed a law through Congress that allowed plaintiffs in a sexual harassment suit t...
... the Cato Institute and author of Libertarianism: A Primer.). Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Ser...
(Of course, it is interesting to point out that in real life we have recently seen the birth and expansion of private-sector efforts to journey into space.) The government's actions turn particularly nefarious when a child protective services worker warns Farmer's wife that her husband is brainwashing her and the children. The rule of law means that individuals are governed by generally applicable and spontaneously developed legal rules, not by arbitrary commands; and that those rules should protect the freedom of individuals to pursue happiness in their own ways, not aim at any particular result or outcome.
... essay excerpted from his book Libertarianism:A Primer about the rule of law: "Libertarianism is...
...Boaz, D. (1997) Libertarianism: A Primer. New York: Simon and Schuster. . Gwartne...
The central plan for housing? More homeowners, more wealth, more happy voters, all by way of cheap money and rising house prices. The appeal of socialism, wrote Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek, "depends on the instinctual appeal of promised consequences.
... the Cato Institute and author of "Libertarianism: A Primer." "Their debt was implicitly backed by t...
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