The Ethics of Liberty

The Ethics of Liberty

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Author	Murray N. Rothbard
Language	English
Subject	Liberty
Published	1982 (Humanities Press) 1998 (New York University Press)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback) & e-book, audio-CD
Pages	336 (Online e–book edition)
ISBN	0391023713 (Paperback edition)
OCLC	7813705
Dewey Decimal	323.44/01 19
LC Class	JC585 .R69 1982

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The Ethics of Liberty is a 1982 book by American philosopher and economist Murray N. Rothbard,^[1] in which the author expounds a libertarian political position.^[2] Rothbard's argument is based on a form of natural law ethics,^[3] and makes a case for anarcho-capitalism.^[4]

Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Introduction to the 1998 edition of the book says that it "explains the integration of economics and ethics via the joint concept of property; and based on the concept of property, and in conjunction with a few general empirical (biological and physical) observations or assumptions, Rothbard deduces the corpus of libertarian law, from the law of appropriation to that of contracts and punishment."^[5]