Apostle of Peace: The Radical Mind of Leonard Read
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At last, Leonard Read, economist and social philosopher, gets his due in this outstanding commentary on and compilation of his writings by Professor Gary Galles. This book is an attempt to assemble a collection of some of Leonard Read’s best, most powerful sustained arguments on behalf of liberty from his many books, edited for brevity, with brief introductory remarks and commentary connecting them to current issues. The ones chosen cover a wide gamut of subjects, from the rhetorical and logical abuses that are used to misrepresent liberty to the meaning of “good government,” the central importance of integrity (which Read viewed as the foremost virtue), the necessity to recognize what is not known and the importance of markets in revealing information that is otherwise unknowable in a complex world, the differences between wants and rights and between justice and “social justice,” whether immoral means can achieve moral ends, how the redistributive state harms every participant, and much more (from publisher's website).
ISBN
ISBN-10: 1621290972 ISBN-13: 978-1621290971
Publication Date
6-10-2013
Publisher
Laissez Faire Books
City
Baltimore, MD
Keywords
Economics, economists, philosophy, social philosophers, liberty, integrity, good governance
Disciplines
Economics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Galles, Gary, "Apostle of Peace: The Radical Mind of Leonard Read" (2013). Economics Faculty Books. 1.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/econbooks/1