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American Economic Review, 2003 Version of ...
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
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Libertarianism and circumcision [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014 Despite the millenniums-old tradition in Abrahamic circles of removing the foreskin of a penis at birth, the involuntary and aggressive practice of circumcision must not be made an exception to the natural, negative right to self-ownership-a birthright which should prevent a parent from physically harming a child from the moment of birth going forward.
Patrick A. Testa, Walter E. Block
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European Journal of Political Theory, 2022 Reciprocal libertarianism is a version of left-wing libertarianism that combines self-ownership with an egalitarian distribution of resources according to reciprocity. In this paper, I show that reciprocal libertarianism is a coherent and appealing view. I discuss how reciprocal libertarians can handle conflicts between self-ownership and reciprocity,
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Libertarian Paternalism Is Not An Oxymoron [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 The idea of libertarian paternalism might seem to be an oxymoron, but it is both possible and legitimate for private and public institutions to affect behavior while also respecting freedom of choice. Often people's preferences are ill-formed, and their choices will inevitably be influenced by default rules, framing effects, and starting points.
Richard H. Thaler +2 more
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Libertarian Theories of Justice
, 2023 This chapter examines the mainstream libertarian theory of justice and its criticisms. Its focus is on the tradition’s protection of individual rights and the enforcement of contracts, as well as a re-examination of historical property acquisitions and state arbitration.
Wood-Donnelly C +2 more
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LIBERTARIANISM AND THE STATE [PDF]
Social Philosophy and Policy, 2006 Although Robert Nozick has argued that libertarianism is compatible with the justice of a minimal state—even if does not arise from mutual consent—few have been persuaded. I will outline a different way of establishing that a non-consensual libertarian state can be just.
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Civitas. Studia z Filozofii Polityki, 2009 An article describes liberal theories of justice presented by John Rawls and Robert Nozick. Both of these competing liberal theories, Rawls’s and Nozick’s, share a similar rationalist approach. Both philosophers start out with assumptions about human nature and from there proceed to deduce a theory of justice upon which they in turn base their vision ...
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Contractarian Libertarianism of Jan Narveson. Is It Still Libertarianism?
Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 2016 This chapter aims at presenting and scrutinizing a contractarian approach to libertarianism, which has been proposed by a Canadian philosopher, Jan Narveson, known as the main proponent of so-called contractarian libertarianism. The chapter begins with the short introduction followed by “Assumptions,” discussing Narveson’s understanding of morality ...
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Politics of COVID-19 vaccine mandates: Left/right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and libertarianism. [PDF]
Pers Individ Dif, 2022 Peng Y.
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Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy? [PDF]
Polit Q, 2022 Butler J, Sorell T.
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