1. Laissez-Faire vs. “Flattening the Curve”: Lessons from Government Attempts to Deal with Economic and Health Disasters
CHAPTER 1
Laissez-Faire vs. “Flattening the Curve”: Lessons from Government Attempts to Deal with Economic and Health Disasters
Roger E. Bissell
There are no libertarians in a pandemic.
—Derek Thompson
2. Nozick and the Natural Duty of Justice
CHAPTER 2
Nozick and the Natural Duty of Justice
Billy Christmas
Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group my do to them (without violating their rights).
—Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
3. Avoiding the Political Realist-Idealist Dichotomy
CHAPTER 3
Avoiding the Political Realist-Idealist Dichotomy
Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen
4. Liberals Need More and Better Cognition Theory
CHAPTER 4
Liberals Need More and Better Cognition Theory
Stephen R. C. Hicks
First the Buddhist talked of the ways to calm, the mastery of desire, the path of enlightenment. The panelists all said “Wow, terrific, if that works for you that’s great.’ Then the Hindu talked of the cycles of suffering and birth and rebirth, the teachings of Krishna and the way to release, and they all said “Wow, terrific, if that works for you that’s great.”
5. Epidemics as a Problem for Liberty
CHAPTER 5
Epidemics as a Problem for Liberty
Lester H. Hunt and R. Kevin Hill
First, do no harm
—Attributed to Hippocrates
6. Post-Marxist Populism in the Twenty-First Century
CHAPTER 6
Post-Marxist Populism in the Twenty-First Century
Alejandra M. Salinas
One who knows the enemy and knows himself
Will not be endangered in a hundred engagements.
—Sun Tzu
7. Anarchy, Nozick, and Gordon
CHAPTER 7
Anarchy, Nozick, and Gordon
Aeon J. Skoble
Only a system that renounces force altogether … qualifies as fully libertarian.
—David Gordon
8. The Anti-Liberty Requirements of Affirmative Consent
CHAPTER 8
The Anti-Liberty Requirements of Affirmative Consent
Jasmine Rae Straight
I’m on the floor, my arms around her legs, my head in her lap, and we’re both quiet. Silence. My pulse. I’m a crystal, dissolving in her, in I-330. I feel with absolute clarity the way the polished facets that define me in space are melting, melting. I’m vanishing, dissolving in her lap, in her. I’m getting smaller and smaller, and at the same time wider, larger, off every scale…. Because she…she’s no longer herself, she’s the whole universe.
9. Economics and Ethics: Neither Independent nor Intertwined, But Mutually Relevant
CHAPTER 9
Economics and Ethics: Neither Independent nor Intertwined
Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation.
—Ludwig von Mises,
“Economic Freedom and Interventionism”
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
—Proverbs 10:2
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