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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Free to Choose, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Ron Paul Bibliography, the Road to Serfdom, the Revolution: a Manifesto, Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well, Capitalism and Freedom, in Defense of Global Capitalism, Rights of Man, Human Action, Omnipotent Government, the Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, Socialism, Liberalism, Radicals for Capitalism, End the Fed, the Theory of Money and Credit, Saturn’s Children, Individualism and Economic Order, the Adventures of Jonathan Gullible, the Future and Its Enemies. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a work of political philosophy written by Robert Nozick in 1974. This minarchist book was the winner of the 1975 National Book Award. It has been translated into 11 languages and was named one of the “100 most influential books since the war” by the Times Literary Supplement. In opposition to A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, and in debate with Spheres of Justice by Michael Walzer, Nozick argues in favor of a minimal state, “limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on.” When a state takes on more responsibilities than these, Nozick argues, rights will be violated. To support the idea of the minimal state, Nozick presents an argument that illustrates how the minimalist state arises naturally from anarchy and how any expansion of state power past this minimalist threshold is unjustified. Nozick’s Entitlement Theory, influenced by John Locke, and Friedrich Hayek, sees humans as ends in themselves and justifies redistribution of goods only on condition of consent, is a key aspect of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. The book also contains a vigorous defense of libertarianism against more e…More: http://booksllc.net/?id=852930
