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LIBERTARIANISM LIBERTARIANISM For and Against Craig Duncan and Tibor R. Machan ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Oxford ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Awholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com PO Box 317 Oxford OX2 9RU, UK Copyright © 2005 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Duncan, Craig, 1969– Libertarianism : for and against / Craig Duncan and Tibor R. Machan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7425-4258-0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7425-4259-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Libertarianism. 2. Liberalism. I. Machan, Tibor R. II. Title. JC585.D83 2005 320.51'2—dc22 2004027526 Printed in the United States of America ∞ ™ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. For Trena—CD For the Dougs—TRM Contents Foreword ix Martha C. Nussbaum Acknowledgments xv ANote to Readers xvii Tibor R. Machan and Craig Duncan PART I 1 The Case for Libertarianism: Sovereign Individuals 3 Tibor R. Machan 2 The Errors of Libertarianism 45 Craig Duncan 3 Fairness—or Equality—Is No Imperative 65 Tibor R. Machan vii viii / Contents PART II 4 Democratic Liberalism: The Politics of Dignity 79 Craig Duncan 5 The Follies of Democratic “Liberalism” 127 Tibor R. Machan 6 Democratic Liberalism Defended 145 Craig Duncan Index 159 About the Authors 169
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