The book is his comprehensive effort to present libertarianism as a “science of liberty”, which rests on the incontrovertible fact that people are different. Procrustean efforts to impose equality are inimical to liberty. This has not prevented egalitarianism from being the dominant ideology of our age. The court intellectuals support it, but they have no arguments to defend their views, which go against human nature.
Not only is equality unnatural; it contravenes the division of labor, the most important cause of a productive economy.
The book contains a wide variety of other essays, all written with Rothbard’s vast knowledge and acute insight. If you want to get a sense of Murray Rothbard as a thinker, this book is a good place to begin.
Autor: Murray Rothbard
Año: 1974
Encuadernación: tapa blanda
Páginas: 321
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Ludwig von Mises Institute
The sixteen essays included in this volume are:
- Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature
- Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty
- The Anatomy of the State
- Justice and Property Rights
- War, Peace, and the State
- The Fallacy of the Public Sector
- Kid Lib
- The Great Women's Liberation Issue: Setting it Straight
- Conservation in the Free Market
- The Meaning of Revolution
- National Liberation
- Anarcho-Communism
- The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist's View
- Ludwig von Mises and the Paradigm for Our Age
- Why Be Libertarian?
- Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor
