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PRIVATE RIGHTS AND PUBLIC ILLUSIONS

PRIVATE RIGHTS AND PUBLIC ILLUSIONS

Tibor Machan

First published 1995 by Transaction Publishers

Published 2017 by Routledge

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Copyright 1995, The Independent Institute, Oakland, CA.

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 93-45616

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Machan, Tibor R.

Private rights and public illusions / Tibor R. Machan.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-56000-176-3 : $34.95. ISBN 1-56000-749-4 (pbk.) : $19.95

1. Civil rightsUnited States. 2. Human rightsUnited States.

3. Trade regulationUnited States. 4. Labor policyUnited States.

5. Individualism. 6. Libertarianism. 7. Welfare state. I. Title.

JC599.U5M265 1994

323'.0973dc20

93-45616
CIP

ISBN 13: 978-1-56000-176-8 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-1-56000-749-4 (pbk)

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Contents

Tibor Machans Private Rights and Public Illusions is a work at once passionate and brimming with critical intelligence. Often as not, a book is best characterized in terms of what it opposes, and Machans target is the all-pervasive present-day tendency to address social problems by way of collective governmental regulation rather than through the distributive efforts of individuals and volunteer organizations. In pursuing this project, Machan has given us a comprehensive and systematic critique of the modern welfare state with its bloated public sector and its pervasive meddling in peoples lives. The readers of this book will find themselves not only informed but challenged by Machans rich and complex critique of a fashionable liberalism that sounds well-intentioned in theory but engenders dire consequences in practice.

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