Anti-Libertarianism · Markets, Philosophy and Myth by Haworth, Alan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Anti-libertarianism Dedication Preface and acknowledgements

A NOTE ON REFERENCING

Part I

Chapter 1. Libertarianism - anti-libertarianism Chapter 2. Market romances I: Nuts and bolts

1. THE MARKET EXCHANGE 2. COMPLICATIONS

Chapter 3. Reducibility, freedom, the invisible hand

1. THE REDUCIBILITY THESIS 2. REDUCIBILITY AND FREEDOM

2.1. The ‘quasi-Lockean scenario’ 2.2. The freedom thesis 2.3. An invocation of authority

3. RAISING THE SPECTRE OF ‘COLLECTIVISM’ 4. REDUCIBILITY AND THE INVISIBLE HAND

Chapter 4. Market romances II: Love is strange

1. A LOGICAL DILEMMA 2. MARKET ROMANCES

Chapter 5. On freedom

1. DEFINING ‘FREEDOM’

1.1. The blocking model 1.2. Blocking and negativism (‘weak’ and ‘strong’) 1.3. Taking blocking seriously

2. THE GANGSTER, THE HYPNOTIST, THE PIT

2.1. Blocking and coercion 2.2. Negative freedom and positive freedom 2.3. Blocking and deliberate interference

3. DELIBERATE INTERFERENCE, FACTS OF NATURE, MARKET FORCES

3.1. Negativism and libertarianism 3.2. Why can‘t I jump ten feet? 3.3. ‘Facts of nature‘: market forces

4. CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 6. The legend of the angels and the fable of the bees

Part II

Chapter 7. Moralising the market Chapter 8. Rights, wrongs and rhetoric

1. ON ARGUMENTS FROM INTUITION 2. RIGHTS AND FENCES

2.1. What the Samaritan didn‘t do 2.2. Rights and fences

3. HEALTH AND HAIRCUTS

3.1. Conflicting intuitions 3.2. The naming of cats 3.3. Context 3.4. How Nozick misinterprets Williams

4. DANGEROUS PHRASES

Chapter 9. Visions of Valhalla

1. THE REALM OF TRUE FREEDOM 2. THE REALM OF RIGHTS AND THE ECONOMIC ORDER 3. THE LIBERTARIAN, THE SAMARITAN AND THE STATE

Part III

Chapter 10. The good fairy’s wand

1. VULGAR INVISIBLE-HANDISM 2. THE GOOD FAIRY‘S WAND 2.1. Argument 1 2.2. Argument 2 2.3. Argument 3

Chapter 11. Hayek and the hand of fate

1. THE MARKET AS A SPONTANEOUS ORDER

1.1. Hayek’s thesis 1.2. The merits of Hayek‘s thesis

2. HOW LIBERTARIAN IS HAYEK? 3. SLIDES AND AMBIGUITIES

3.1. Purpose and function 3.2. Rules: abstract and general – specific and particular 3.3. Domains

4. EVOLUTIONISM‘S OTHER FACE

Chapter 12. Conclusions and postscript

Notes

1. Libertarianism – anti-libertarianism 2. Market romances I: nuts and bolts 3. Reducibility, freedom, the invisible hand 4. Market romances II: love is strange 5. On freedom 6. The legend of the angels and the fable of the bees 7. Moralising the market 8. Rights, wrongs and rhetoric 9. Visions of Valhalla 10. The good fairy’s wand 11. Hayek and the hand of fate 12. Conclusions and postscript

Bibliography