The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism
Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Series

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 chapters--all written specifically for this volume--are organized into five parts. Part I asks, what should libertarianism learn from other theories of justice, and what should defenders of other theories of justice learn from libertarianism? Part II asks, what are some of the deepest problems facing libertarian theories? Part III asks, what is the right way to think about property rights and the market? Part IV asks, how should we think about the state? Finally, part V 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Libertarianism in conversation with other theories

1. Learning from libertarianism: thanks from an unrepentant social democrat

Richard W. Miller

2. Libertarianism without Locke

Jacob Levy

3. Hayekian Classical Liberalism

Gerald Gaus

4. Democracy and equality versus libertarianism and classical liberalism

Richard Arneson

5. Kant’s Liberalism

Chris W. Suprenant

6. What’s Wrong with Libertarianism? The Meritocratic Diagnosis

Thomas Mulligan

7. Liberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is a Liberal View

Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino A. Candela

8. Liberal and Illiberal Libertarianism

Samuel Freeman

Questioning libertarian principles

9. Feminism and the Libertarian Self-Ownership Thesis

Ann Cudd

10. Self-love, justice, and cooperation

Eric Mack

11. Exception Rights

Nicolás Maloberti

12. The Sufficiency Proviso: A Case for Moderate Libertarianism

Fabian Wendt

13. Liberty: A PPE Approach

Jason Brennan

14. The Myths of the Self-Ownership Thesis

Jason Brennan and Bas van der Vossen

15. Social Contractarianism

John Thrasher

The role of property and the market:

16. What can be for sale?

Peter Martin Jaworski

17. Property Rights: Natural, Conventional, or Hybrid?

Anna Stilz

18. Is Wealth Redistribution a Rights Violation?

Michael Huemer

19. Trade

Fernando Tesón

20. Non-Libertarian Defenses of Economic Rights as Basic Rights

Queralt

What is the role of the state?

21. Ideal Theory

Samuel Freeman

22. Private Goverance

Edward Peter Stringham

23. Libertarianism and the Welfare State

Matt Zwolinski

24. Government failure and market failure

Michael Munger

25. Freedom and Knowledge

Ilya Somin

Applied libertarian issues:

26. The Libertarian Case for Open Borders

Javier Hidalgo

27. Religion and Politics

Kevin Vallier

28. A Libertarian Approach to Medicine

Jessica Flanigan

29. Tolerance

Ryan Muldoon

30. Paternalism and The Limits of Liberty

Sarah Conly

31. Free markets and exploitation

Hillel Steiner

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), and Why Not Capitalism? (2014).

Bas van der Vossen is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Smith Institute of Political Economy and Philosophy, Chapman University. He is the author, together with Fernando Tesón, of Debating Humanitarian Intervention (2017).

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