Alan Haworth

Anti-libertarianism (eBook, PDF)

Markets, philosophy and myth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 proponents fail to examine the philosophical roots of their so-called freedom? Anti-libertarianism takes a sceptical look at the conceptual tenets of free market politics. Alan Haworth argues that libertarianism is little more than an unfounded, quasi-religious statement of faith: a market romance. Moreover, libertarianism is exposed as profoundly antithetical to the very freedom which it purports to advance.
This controversial book is for anyone interested in the cultural and political impact of free market policies on the modern world. It will be invaluable to students and specialists of political and economic theory, social science and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134890729
• Artikelnr.: 38260025

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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