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The Science of Liberty: Selected Essays on Politics, Culture and Economics (Chris R. Tame Books Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Chris Tame (Author), Sean Gabb (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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Chris Tame (1949-2006) was the Founder and Director of the Libertarian Alliance, and was the most prominent British libertarian of his age.

The works assembled in this book attempt to demonstrate that classical liberalism (or ‘libertarianism’, to employ the more recent neologism for this intellectual tradition) was a richer, deeper and more systematic school of thought than is normally portrayed. They also try to analyse why that tradition went into decline, and why it has, in recent years, enjoyed a revival. A number of the essays are also attempts to apply that more systematic perspective to a number of topics in different disciplines.

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  • BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ON CHRIS R. TAME BY SEAN GABB
  • INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS R. TAME
  • CREATING A SCIENCE OF LIBERTY: THE LIFE & HERITAGE OF MURRAY N. ROTHBARD, 1926-1995
  • THE REVOLUTION OF REASON: PETER GAY, THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF CLASSICAL LIBERALISM
  • THE CRITICAL LIBERALISM OF J. M. ROBERTSON
  • THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT: THE REVIVAL OF LIBERTARIAN IDEAS
  • AGAINST THE NEW MERCANTILISM: THE RELEVANCE OF ADAM SMITH
  • CHANGE AND PSEUDO-CHANGE IN SOCIOLOGY
  • AN ECONOMIC MISINTERPRETATION OF HISTORY: A CRITIQUE OF J. K. GALBRAITH’S ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM
  • FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY AND JUSTICE: THE CRIMINOLOGY OF THE ‘NEW RIGHT’
  • THE MORAL CASE FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
  • LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE STARS: THE IDEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIENCE FICTION
  • ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND THE FAILURE OF NIHILISM
  • CO-OPERATION WITHOUT COMMUNITY
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01E8WF1AY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hampden Press
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 13, 2016
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  • Critic41
    3.0 out of 5 stars If you like verbal neo-gibberish
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2016
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    Maybe too over my head! Reads like it was written by a bunch or erudite snobs trying to impress each other with their linguistic skills.
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  • Keir Martland
    5.0 out of 5 stars Systematic, rigorous, well written, these essays are a joy to read. Highly recommended for libertarians and classical liberals.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2016
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    Chris R. Tame was for many years the face of British libertarianism. Tame discovered Ayn Rand’s work when he was seventeen and quickly became a libertarian. Having been involved with established organisations such as the Society for Individual Freedom and the Institute for Economic Affairs, and dismayed by the lack of an explicitly libertarian organisation in the UK, he and a few others broke away to found what was later to become the Libertarian Alliance, of which he was the first director. His activism also involved a highly successful period as director of the smokers’ rights organisation, FOREST. He died of bone cancer on 20th March 2006.

    This book, published 10 years after his death, is evidence for the proposition that Chris Tame was the most important, intelligent, and insightful libertarian of his day. Systematic, rigorous, well written, these essays are a joy to read.
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