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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LIBERTARIANISM

Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the traditional Left and Right. The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism helps readers fully examine this alternative without preaching it to them, exploring the contours of libertarian (sometimes also called classical liberal ) thinking on justice, institutions, interpersonal ethics, government, and political economy. The 31 chaptersall written specifically for this volumeare organized into five parts. asks, how well (or badly) can libertarianism deal with some of the major policy challenges of our day, such as immigration, trade, religion in politics, and paternalism in a free market? Among the Handbook s chapters are those from critics who write about what they believe libertarians get right as well as others from leading libertarian theorists who identify what they think libertarians get wrong. As a whole, the Handbook provides a comprehensive, clear-eyed look at what libertarianism has been and could be, and why it matters.

Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Chair of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, where he teaches courses in the intersection of politics, philosophy, and economics. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Against Democracy (2016), Markets without Limits , with Peter Jaworski (2015), Compulsory Voting: For and Against (2014), and Why Not Capitalism? (2014).

Bas van der Vossen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Smith Institute of Political Economy and Philosophy, Chapman University. His research focusses on questions of political philosophy, in particular the ethics of international affairs and the Lockean theory of property rights. He is the author, together with Fernando Tesn, of Debating Humanitarian Intervention (2017).

David Schmidtz is the Kendrick Professor of Philosophy at the College of Social & Behavior Sciences and the Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic at College of Management, the University of Arizona. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 14 book publications.

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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LIBERTARIANISM

Edited by Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen,
and David Schmidtz

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Richard Arneson teaches at the University of California, San Diego, where he is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Valtz Family Chair in Philosophy. He writes on moral and political philosophy, with a special focus on theories of distributive justice and on debates between consequentialists and their critics. He also does research on applied ethics topics.

Peter J. Boettke is a university Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University. He is also a BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism and the Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is co-editor-in-chief of The Review of Austrian Economics , President-elect of the Southern Economic Association, and President of The Mont Pelerin Society. His most recent publications include Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow and The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics (co-edited with Christopher J. Coyne). Among his textbooks, The Economic Way of Thinking (with Paul Heyne and David Prychitko) is currently in its 13th edition, and Institutional Economics: Property, Competition, Policy (with Wolfgang Kasper and Manfred Streit) is in its 2nd edition.

Geoffrey Brennan is a distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a research Professor of Political Science at Duke University, and a Professor in the Research School of the Social Sciences at Australian National University. An economist by training, Geoffrey Brennan works actively on issues at the intersection of economics, rationality, and political philosophy. In addition to his position here, which brings him to Chapel Hill for one semester each year, Brennan is a Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is the Director of the DukeUNC joint program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). Brennan is the author of nine books, including, with James Buchanan, The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (1985); with Loren Lomasky, Democracy and Decision: the Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (1993); with Alan Hamlin, Democratic Devices and Desires (2000); and, most recently, with Philip Pettit, The Economy of Esteem (2004). He is also the author of over 100 articles.