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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791720103321

Autore

Machan Tibor R

Titolo

The liberty option [[electronic resource] /] / Tibor R. Machan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Exeter, : Imprint Academic, c2003

ISBN

1-283-69260-0

1-84540-363-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 p.)

Collana

Societas : essays in political and cultural criticism ; ; 5

Disciplina

320.51

Soggetti

Liberty - Philosophy

Equality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: A Short Lesson About Liberty; Body matter; 1: Why Freedom Remains the Priority; 2: Financing Law Without Taxation; 3: Private Property Rights; 4: The Gist of a System of Liberty; 5: Liberty - Abstract & Concrete; Back matter; References

Sommario/riassunto

The Liberty Option advances the idea that for compelling moral as well as practical reasons it is the free society - with the rule of law founded on the principles of private property rights, its complete respect for individual sovereignty and properly limited legal authorities - not one or another version of statism that serves justice best, is most prosperous and encourages the greatest measure of individual virtue on the part of the citizenry. The work shows why this is so and lays out so...