Liberty and Property: the Levellers and Locke

10/21/2010 Murray N. Rothbard

There is no clash between Locke’s libertarian concerns and devotion to “classical virtue.” Devotees of liberty, property, and free markets have generally been moralists as well as adherents of a free-market economy, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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