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The Market for Liberty (Large Print Edition) (Large Print Edition)

The Market for Liberty (Large Print Edition) (Large Print Edition)

Tannehill, Linda
Tannehill, Morris

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1515162826
ISBN13: 9781515162827
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jul 29 2015
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.38 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com.

Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a time when a new understanding brings in the world into focus for the first time.

The Market for Liberty is that second type of classic, and what a treasure it is. Written by two authors-Morris and Linda Tannehill-just following a period of intense study of the writings of both Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard, it has the pace, energy, and rigor you would expect from an evening's discussion with either of these two giants.

More than that, these authors put pen to paper at precisely the right time in their intellectual development, that period rhapsodic freshness when a great truth had been revealed, and they had to share it with the world. Clearly, the authors fell in love with liberty and the free market, and wrote an engaging, book-length sonnet to these ideas.

This book is very radical in the true sense of that term: it gets to the root of the problem of government and provides a rethinking of the whole organization of society. They start at the beginning with the idea of the individual and his rights, work their way through exchange and the market, expose government as the great enemy of mankind, and then-and here is the great surprise-they offer a dramatic expansion of market logic into areas of security and defense provision.

Their discussion of this controversial topic is integrated into their libertarian theoretical apparatus. It deals with private arbitration agencies in managing with disputes and criminality, the role of insurers in providing profitable incentives for security, and private agencies in their capacity as protection services. It's for this reason that Hoppe calls this book an outstanding yet much neglected analysis of the operation of competition.

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