The Struggle for a Better World
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The Struggle for a Better World

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The Struggle for a Better World

About this book

In The Struggle for a Better World, Peter J. Boettke explores how the social sciences, and political economy in particular, help us understand society and its institutions of governance. Boettke advances an approach for understanding, articulating, and pursuing a coherent and consistent vision of a society of free and responsible individuals who may prosper through voluntary participation in the market and their communities. In this volume, a collection of addresses, lectures, and papers over the past two decades, Boettke articulates ideas which, if consistently pursued, can help fulfill liberalism's emancipatory promise to advance human flourishing and overcome adversity caused by economic, social, and political injustice and repression. Boettke advocates for liberal cosmopolitanism, grounded in the principles of equality, justice, and liberty, and the basic recognition that all people are dignified equals, as the best hope for a better world.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Economic and Political Liberalism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  4. 1. The Battle of Ideas: Economics and the Struggle for a Better World
  5. 2. Economics and Public Administration
  6. 3. Liberty vs. Power in Economic Policy in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  7. 4. What Happened to “Efficient Markets”?
  8. 5. Is State Intervention in the Economy Inevitable?
  9. 6. Why Does Government Overspend? Because It Has Too Much Power
  10. 7. The Role of the Economist in a Free Society
  11. 8. Don’t Be a “Jibbering Idiot”: Economic Principles and the Properly Trained Economist
  12. 9. Information and Knowledge: Austrian Economics in Search of Its Uniqueness
  13. 10. What Should Classical Liberal Political Economists Do?
  14. 11. Context, Continuity, and Truth: Theory, History, and Political Economy
  15. 12. Fearing Freedom: The Intellectual and Spiritual Challenge to Liberalism
  16. 13. Rebuilding the Liberal Project
  17. 14. The Reception of Free to Choose and the Problem of the Tacit Presuppositions of Political Economy
  18. 15. Competition, Discovery, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Case for International Liberalism in Our Time
  19. 16. Pessimistically Optimistic about the Future
  20. Conclusion: Liberalism, Socialism, and Our Future
  21. About the Author