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The libertarian philosophy is often associated only with economics or with resistance to social norms.In this path-breaking book, editor Tom Palmer weaves together a series of essays, theoretical and practical, showing how to live a happier life, be a better person, and enjoy the benefits of freedom and responsibility.Case studies with scientific, historical, and philosophical insights are offered to create a handbook for free people who want to live in free, prosperous, cooperative, peaceful, and just societies.For those looking for alternatives to the Nanny State, the Prohibitionist State, and the Welfare State, this book is a good place to start.

"Este año celebramos el 40 Aniversario del nacimiento de Atlas Network, y estoy increíblemente orgulloso de la gran red que ha crecido y evolucionado a lo largo de estas cuatro décadas, colaborando en hacer crecer el valor de las personas respecto de la libertad y el libre mercado. Al mismo tiempo, también me preocupa que las grandes ventajas y logros de la libertad están cada vez más dados por sentado por las generaciones más jóvenes y ante esto enfrentamos fuertes olas de populismo desde ambas partes del espectro político, tanto en la derecha como en la izquierda.Hoy más que nunca debemos dejar en claro que el capitalismo y las instituciones de la sociedad libre son los factores que nos llevan hacia mayor movilidad social, igualdad ante la ley y dignidad humana para todos. Estoy enormemente agradecido por la presencia de jóvenes como Antonella Marty, quien está aportando una enorme y renovada energía a este esfuerzo por la libertad. Hoy más que nunca tenemos que entender que está en nuestras manos levantar las banderas de la libertad humana y la prosperidad, y asegurar un futuro más prospero y pacífico para todos." -Brad Lips, CEO de Atlas Network

Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? The previous generation and its predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state. The welfare state is responsible for two current crises: the financial crisis that has slowed down or even reversed growth and stalled economies around the world, and the debt crisis that is gripping Europe, the United States, and other countries. It has piled mountains of debt on the shoulders of the most vulnerable among us, children and young people, and has issued promises that are impossible to fulfill. The crisis of unfunded obligations is approaching. It won't be pretty. History, economics, sociology, political science, and mathematics are the tools to understand and evaluate welfare states, rather than emotional responses or conspiracy theories.

The ideas presented in this book are about an alternative view of politics: a politics, not of force, but of persuasion, of live-and-let-live, of rejecting both subjugation and domination.The essays are mainly written by younger people who are active in the Students For Liberty, a very dynamic and exciting international movement. They offer an introduction to the philosophy by which most human beings live their lives on a day-to-day basis.Being a libertarian means not only refraining from harming the rights of other people, namely, respecting the rules of justice with regards to other people, but also equipping yourself mentally to understand what it means for people to have rights, how rights create the foundation for peaceful social cooperation, and how voluntary societies work. It means standing up, not only for your own freedom, but for the freedom of other people.

The second in the "What Your Professors Won't Tell You" series of essays on political economy, this collection features Nobel Prize winners Mario Vargas Llosa and Vernon Smith, Whole Foods Market CEO and founder John Mackey, noted Chinese economist Mao Yushi, economic historian Deirdre McCloskey, Russian political scientist Leonid Nikonov, and other scholars from across the globe.This book series is a project of Students for Liberty and Atlas Network and offers fresh perspectives on perennial questions: Are profits moral? Is there a trade-off between competition and cooperation? Is there a just distribution of wealth? and more. Each essay offers readers the opportunity to see a side of the debate on economic morality that is rarely acknowledged even to exist-and then to make up their own minds.

Students For Liberty and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation have published a new book, The Economics of Freedom: What Your Professors Won't Tell You. It features a feature a collection of Bastiat's best essays including such classics as "What is Seen and What is Not Seen" and "A Petition", along with contemporary essays by Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek and Atlas Foundation Vice President Tom G. Palmer.

There is no such thing as being "undecided" about war. It's a binary choice. If you're not for it, you have to be against it.The essays in this book offer evidence and arguments for peace. The writers advance peace not merely as a moral ideal but as an eminently practical objective. Too often peace activists have thought it sufficient merely to call for peace and to denounce war, without investigating the economic, social, political, and psychological conditions of peace. They may oppose this or that war, without considering what causes wars-for example, fallacies about clashes of civilizations, economic conflict, protectionism, and the zero-sum worldview-and then addressing those causes.Peace is not an impractical fantasy, nor is it something for which one must sacrifice prosperity or progress or freedom. In fact, peace, freedom, prosperity, and progress go hand in hand.The essays in this book appeal to the mind. They are anchored in sound history, economic reality, empirical psychology, political science, and hard-headed logic, as well as art and the aesthetic imagination. If the heart is to be engaged on behalf of peace, it should be engaged through the mind.

In 2021, the world is emerging from an extraordinary health crisis. It now confronts an extraordinary freedom crisis.Brad Lips's Liberalism and the Free Society in 2021 takes a sober look at how institutions of liberal democracy are now tested-in the U.S. and worldwide-by lockdowns, cronyism, cancel culture, and more. Exploring trends from the Global Index of Economic Mentality and drawing insights from an international network of experts and activists, Liberalism and the Free Society in 2021 offers readers a deeper understanding of the fragility of freedom's future. Importantly, the book also shares reasons for hope as well as a path forward for building a larger coalition around the timeless values that sustain free societies.