The Cambridge Handbook of Classical Liberal Thought

This Handbook brings together scholars to consider how classical liberal principles can help us understand and address social problems.

M. Todd Henderson (Edited by)

9781108416931, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 September 2018

322 pages, 1 b/w illus.
23.6 x 16 x 2.1 cm, 0.59 kg

Polls suggest up to twenty percent of Americans describe their beliefs as 'libertarian', but libertarians are often derided as heartless Social Darwinists or naïve idealists. This illuminating handbook brings together scholars from a range of fields (from law to philosophy to politics to economics) and political perspectives (right, left, and center) to consider how classical liberal principles can help us understand and potentially address a variety of pressing social problems including immigration, climate change, the growth of the prison population, and a host of others. Anyone interested in political theory or practical law and politics will find this book an essential resource for understanding this major strand of American politics.

Introduction
1. The rise, fall, and renaissance of classical liberalism Ralph Raico
2. Back the future: new classical liberalism and old social justice Jason Brennan
3. More and better: resources defined through property and exchange Art Carden
4. The boundaries of anti-discrimination laws David E. Bernstein
5. Environmental protection: final frontier or Achilles heel? Jonathon H. Adler
6. I, Pencil Leonard E. Read
Note from Editor and introduction Lawrence W. Reed
7. Foot voting and the future of liberty Ilya Somin
8. Classical liberal administrative law in a progressive world Michael Rappaport
9. Political libertarianism Jacob T. Levy
10. The bourgeois argument for freer immigration Fernando R. Tesón
11. Rationality – what?: misconceptions of neoclassical and behavioral economics Mario J. Rizzo
12. Property, intellectual property, and regulation James Y. Stern
13. Classical liberalism and the problem of technological change Justin Hurwitz and Geoffrey A. Manne
14. Classical liberalism, race and mass incarceration Aziz Huq
15. Seven problems for classical liberals Louis Michael Seidman
16. Meeting the fundamental objections to classical liberalism Richard A. Epstein.

Subject Areas: Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA], Political science & theory [JPA]