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The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism

Ronald Hamowy University of Alberta, Canada.

A project of the Cato Institute

© 2008   664 pages   SAGE Publications, Inc   
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Hardcover ISBN: 9781412965804 $140.00
  • Available in both print and electronic formats, the encyclopedia consists of over 300 A-to-Z signed entries, each providing an introduction to a topic or policy question relevant to libertarianism or a biography of a person who has had an impact on libertarianism.
  • Entries conclude with bibliographies and references for further reading and cross-references to related entries.
  • Editors take special care to ensure entries clearly set out libertarian approaches to issues, do not “take sides” on disputed matters or engage in polemics, and represent the views of others fairly and accurately.
  • Although overall organization in the body of the encyclopedia is A-to-Z, entries fall within three categories within which they are grouped in a "Reader's Guide" alternate table of contents included in the front matter: 1) biographical (John Locke, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Adam Smith, A. R. J. Turgot, etc.); 2) topical (Bill of Rights, capitalism, classical liberalism, crime & restitution, experimental economics, fusionism, genetics, liability, natural law, objectivism, presumption of liberty, private property, public choice, stoicism, etc.); and 3) policy (abortion, affirmative action, anti-trust, banking & monetary policy, campaign financing, charity, education, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, gambling, illicit drugs, etc.).
  • Among the entries are essays offering criticisms of libertarianism from different perspectives.
  • The work starts with an introductory essay offering an extensive historical and thematic overview of libertarianism, accompanied by a chronology of key events and publications in the development of libertarian thought.

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