Anti-libertarianism - markets, philosophy and myth

alan Haworth

Routledge

1994

158 páginas

5h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780415082549

Free maketeers 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, "night-watchman" form as a repressive embodiment of evil. Some reject the state altogheter.

But is the "free market idea" a rationally defensible belief? Or do its proponents fail to examine the philosophical roots of their so-called freedom?