Defenders of Liberty : Human Nature, Individualism, and Property Rights, Pape...

by Neema Parvini

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Defenders of Liberty : Human Nature, Individualism, and Property Rights, Paperback by Parvini, Neema, ISBN 3030394549, ISBN-13 9783030394547, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Defenders of Liberty presents a history of economic liberalism from the Renaissance to the present. It chronicles the tradition of thought that sees human nature as social yet self-interested, methodological individualism as its key analytical tool, and property rights as foundational to a civilised society. In the development of this way of thinking, it considers the contributions of many key thinkers including Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Richard Cantillon, . Turgot, David Hume, Adam Smith, Nassau William Senior, Richard Cobden, Herbert Spencer, Jean-Baptiste Say, Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons, Gaetano Mosca, Eugen Böhm-Bawerk, Vilfredo Pareto, Phillip Wicksteed, Edwin Cannan, Ludwig von Mises, Lionel Robbins, . Hayek, . Hutt, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Murray N. Rothbard, James M. Buchanan, and Thomas Sowell. Th contends that liberalism needs to be grounded in realism, and that it has been derailed whenever economists have deviated from an explicitly realist understanding of human nature, individualism and property rights. It argues that the cause of liberalism was compromised by errors in economic reasoning by such major figures as David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Alfred Marshall, . Pigou, and John Maynard Keynes. In diagnosing what has gone wrong for liberali

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9783030394547
• Condition: Fine

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