Champions of a free society: ideas of capitalism's philosophers and economists

Preface

Introduction

Part I. Ancient and Medieval Periods

1. Lao Tzu's Naturalistic Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics

2. Aristotle and Human Flourishing

3. Aristotle and Economics

4. Epicurus on Freedom and Happiness

5. Thomas Aquinas's Christian Aristotelianism

Part II. Early Modern and Renaissance Periods

6. Spinoza on Freedom, Ethics, and Politics

7. John Locke's Limited State

8. Turgot on Progress and Political Economy

9. Adam Smith's Moral and Economic System

Part III. The Late Modern Period

10. Jean-Baptiste Say's Law of Markets: A Fundamental, Conceptual Integration

11. Herbert Spencer on Liberty and Human Progress

12. Carl Menger's Economics of Well-Being

Part IV. The Contemporary Period

13. Ludwig von Mises on Human Action

14. Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism

15. Murray Rothbard's Randian Austrianism

16. The Road to Objective Economics: Hayek Takes a Wrong Turn

17. Milton Friedman's Pragmatic and Incremental Libertarianism

18. Mises, Friedman, and Rand: A Methodological Comparison

19. James M. Buchanan: Constitutional and Post-Constitutional Political Economy

20. Robert Nozick's Libertarian Framework for Utopias

21. Reality Is Not Optional: Thomas Sowell's Vision of Man and Society

22. Michael Novak's Vision of Democratic Capitalism

Part V. The Philosophy of Freedom: In Retrospect and Prospect

23. Revisiting the Intellectual Heritage of a Free Society

24. Developing a Paradigm for a Free Society

Index

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