Reddit reviews Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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Reddit reviews Anarchy, State, and UtopiaWe found 10 Reddit comments about Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
For political science, I liked "Why Nations Fail". For political theory, the 1-2 punch of "A Theory of Justice" and "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" is obligatory. If you ever just want to cry, there's "A Problem from Hell."
The political problem I'm most interested in is how to conduct votes. www.equal.vote has some really good information about how different voting systems work and how the voting systems used in all developed democracies are not optimal. Best of luck.
Three books I'd suggest, in the order I'd read them:
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
The Road to Serfdom by FA Hayek
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
Outside the libertarian canon, Rousseau's On the Social Contract and Rawls' A Theory of Justice should be on everyone's reading list. Rawls and Nozick are probably the two most influential political philosophers of the late 20th century and understanding their arguments about the justification of property rights and the original position are the ABCs of modern political debate.
There's Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which has a sort of Lockean natural-rights bent and Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty which might be more straightforward. I'd also recommend Free Market Fairness by Tomasi; it takes a look at libertarianism with a Rawlsian social justice twist. Finally, I'd take a look at The Logic of Liberty by Michael Polyani. Hope none of these are too basic.
I started to make one a while back but didn't get too far. There are just too many great books to choose from.
Classics 1950-1970
What is Conservatism?
The Conservative Mind
The Road to Serfdom
The Constitution of Liberty
Ideas Have Consequences
The Quest for Community
Economics in One Lesson
Capitalism and Freedom
In Defense of Freedom
Age of Reagan 1970-1990
The Conservative Intellectual Movement Since 1945
Modern Times
Knowledge and Decisions
A Conflict of Visions
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Roots Of American Order
Modern Must Reads 1990-Today
The Clash of Civilizations
A History of the American People
The Vision of the Annointed
Intellectuals and Society
Illiberal Reformers
Restoring the Lost Constitution
How To Be A Conservative
I'm not an expert, but Libertarians are motivated by modern thinkers like a man named Nozick mainly Anarchy, State and Utopia. Here is an amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-State-Utopia-Robert-Nozick/dp/0465051006/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527807715&sr=8-1&keywords=Robert+Nozick
There are other thinkers among them and these thinkers may have been influenced by people in the Enlightenment like Locke and Rousseau, but there most closest thinkers were from the 20th century.
The joke about Libertarians is they are Conservatives that like Drugs and Prostitutes (Drug use and Prostitution to them should be legal). The are Conservative in the sense they believe in minimum taxation (Fiscal Conservative) without any social safety nets and privatized government (no Bureaucracies). They are free trade people, so these recent tariffs would concern them.
They are not Christians, they are of the Atheist vein and so they believe in complete and utter separation of Church and States. So, no religious freedom for them.
In California, where we do have them, they do vote Conservative but not on religious issues but rather on, "lower my taxes," reason.
That's the best that I know.
Not everything I'm going to list is really libertarian per se but I think they do give important context for the libertarian/broader right wing movement
Economics in One Lesson. It's repetitive but gets the point across
Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a philosophical perspective
IThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It's difficult to call Heinlein a libertarian but this book definitely is. Also where the 'rational' part of my flair comes from!
There is No Alternative. I'm not sure how many people would consider Thatcher a libertarian but she's an important part of the history of the modern struggle against socialism that I think is overlooked in the United States
The Fatal Conceit. One of Hayek's must read works. A much shorter one that is I think just as important, Why I Am Not a Conservative
Atlas Shrugged. I'm not saying it's a good book or that you don't know of it but it's worth thumbing through just to see what all the hubbub's about. Prepare yourself for a latent S&M fetish.
Capitalism and Freedom. Maybe reading this will help you figure out why Naomi Klein seems to hate Friedman so much. Also very good and much more digestible is his television series Free to Choose and the similarly titled book
The Communist Manifesto. Provides good context. And maybe a chuckle.
Great recommendations already. I'll throw in Anarchy, State and Utopia though it may not be the best book club read.
Also, Ideas Have Consequences and The Conservative Mind.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/wiki/reading
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https://www.amazon.com/Law-Legislation-Liberty-statement-principles/dp/0415522293/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents-Definitive-Collected/dp/0226320553/ref=la_B000AQ6W60_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503059047&sr=1-1
https://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-State-Utopia-Robert-Nozick/dp/0465051006/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503059077&sr=1-1&keywords=nozick
https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Political-Philosophy-Will-Kymlicka/dp/0198782748/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503059099&sr=1-4&keywords=contemporary+political
https://www.amazon.com/New-History-Western-Philosophy/dp/0199656495/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503059282&sr=1-1&keywords=new+history+of+philosophy
http://econlog.econlib.org/
http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/
>Nozick is so totally irrelevant to modern libertarian theory and we are heavily amused that mainstream philosophers are still mentioning him.
Totally irrelevant? Care to back this up? Given that his first book was just re-released, and a Cambridge Companion to that book was released 2012, I would have to respectfully disagree.
Of course, political philosophy has progressed since Nozick (It's been 40 years after all!) but his work still remains important and influential to many debates within philosophy.