After libertarianism
Rejoinder to Narveson, McCloskey, Flew, and Machan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6252009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey Friedman (0000-0002-3013-3950, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 113-152 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913819208443257 |
| OpenAlex | W2312227569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 14 |
Postlibertarianism means abandoning defenses of the intrinsic justice of laissez‐faire capitalism, the better to investigate whether the systemic consequences of interfering with capitalism are severe enough to justify laissez‐faire. Any sound case for laissez‐faire is likely to build on postlibertarian research, for the conviction that laissez‐faire is intrinsically just rests upon unsound philosophical assumptions. Conversely, these assumptions, if sound, would make empirical studies of capitalism by libertarian scholars superfluous. Moreover, postmodern approaches to “libertarianism” perpetuate the same assumptions, in the guise of a critique of the rationalist hubris that has supposedly led to the tragedies of the twentieth century. The “libertarian” and postmodernist critics of postlibertarianism either ignore the assumptions undergirding their views, or they contend that these assumptions are not necessary when “freedom” and “morality” are properly defined. The latter contention amounts to an attempt to define the challenge to “libertarianism” out of existence
Capitalism · Conviction · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Hubris · Laissez-faire · Law and economics · Libertarianism · Morality · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statism · Utilitarianism · Economic Theory and Institutions · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
Rothbard’s and Hoppe’s justifications of libertarianism
The problems of postlibertarianism
Questions for postlibertarians
Postlibertarianism is not libertarianism
Cultural theory as individualistic ideology
Truth and liberation
Economic consequentialism and beyond
The politics of communitarianism
The new politics of property rights
Discovery and the capitalist process
The Fatal Conceit
Individualism and Economic Order
The Counter-Revolution of Science
Minimal statism and metamodernism
Libertarianism, postlibertarianism, and the welfare state
The right to private property
Dissent from “the new consensus
Postmodernism vs. Postlibertarianism
The practice of theory, the theory of practice∗
The new consensus
The new consensus
Stanley fish and the old quarrel between rhetoric and philosophy
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2012 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |