The Ethics of Liberty

The Ethics of Liberty
Paperback cover
Author	Murray N. Rothbard
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Ethics, political philosophy
Genre	political philosophy, ethics, essay
Published	1982 (Humanities Press) 1998 (New York University Press)
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback) & e-book, audio-CD
Pages	336 (Online e-book edition)
ISBN	0-391-02371-3 (Paperback edition)
OCLC	7813705
Dewey Decimal	323.44/01 19
LC Class	JC585 .R69 1982

The Ethics of Liberty is a 1982 book by American economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard; in it, Rothbard expounds a libertarian political position.

Summary

Rothbard provides an exposition of the libertarian political position. He argues for the case of freedom as a concept of natural rights and applies it to a variety of practical problems.

Reception

Reception of the book has been positive in libertarian circles. Many praise the book for its incisive analysis of natural law and it's practical applications. Libertarian commentator Sheldon Richman says : "The Ethics of Liberty is a great book that deserves the attention of anyone interested in the good society and human flourishing."^[1]

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, who wrote the introduction to later editions of the book, described The Ethics of Liberty as Murray Rothbard's second magnum opus, the other being Man, Economy, and State (1962).^[2]

University of San Diego philosophy professor Matt Zwolinski criticized the book, writing that Rothbard's discussion of self-ownership in chapter six "rests on a fundamental confusion between descriptive and normative claims."^[3]

Release history

New York University Press. New York, N.Y. February 1, 2003. Paperback. ISBN 0-8147-7559-4
New York University Press. New York, N.Y. May 1, 1998. Hardcover. ISBN 0-8147-7506-3
Humanities Press. Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 1982. Hardcover. ISBN 0-391-02371-3

References

↑ http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/tgif-rothbards-the-ethics-of-liberty-still-worthy-after-all-these-years/
↑ https://www.mises.org/rothbard/ethics/hoppeintro.asp
↑ Zwolinski, Matt. "rothbards-second-argument-for-self-ownership". Retrieved 26 August 2013.

External links

The Ethics of Liberty Full Text, Preface, read by Jeff Riggenbach
Introduction to The Ethics of Liberty by Hans-Hermann Hoppe in HTML format
Introduction to the French edition of The Ethics of Liberty
1998 review by Sheldon Richman

Books by Murray Rothbard

Man, Economy, and State (1962)
The Panic of 1819 (1962)
America's Great Depression (1963)
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1963)
Power and Market (1970)
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973)
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (1974)
Conceived in Liberty (1975-79)
The Ethics of Liberty (1982)
The Mystery of Banking (1983)
The Case Against the Fed (1994)
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)
A History of Money and Banking in the United States (2002)
The Complete Libertarian Forum (2006)
Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought (Complete, 1965–1968) (2007)
The Betrayal of the American Right (2007)

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