All Posts Tagged With: "utopianism"
The “Risk” of Liberty: Criminal Law in the Welfare State
Michael Giuliano is an attorney editor at Thomson Reuters. The word crime has come to include an ever-increasing assortment of activities that do not fit the intuitive meaning of the word. The law has criminalized behavior deemed risky or undesirable and actions or status having only vague relationships to undefined harms. The lawmaking process under [...]
1Sep2008 | Michael N. Giuliano | 4 comments | ContinuedDialectics and Liberty
Ten years ago the first two books of what has become known as my “Dialectics and Liberty” trilogy were published. Those books—Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (SUNY Press) and Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State Press)—together with the culminating work, Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Penn State Press), constitute a defense of dialectical method [...]
1Sep2005 | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages
Property is a multifaceted and fundamental topic. Tom Bethell here gives us a broad survey, dealing with economic, political, and legal theory; episodes of economic and political activity; and assessments of institutional constraints and procedures from ancient Greece to virtually the day before yesterday. Since the fiasco in the Garden of Eden, we have lived [...]
1Aug1999 | William R. Allen | 0 comments | Continued-
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