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Libertarian Welfare State: A Book I'm Writing
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Libertarian Welfare State: A Book I'm Writing
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/luispedro/libertarian-welfare
- Owner: luispedro
- License: other
- Created: 2012-03-26T19:56:46.000Z (over 14 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2013-12-03T15:15:19.000Z (over 12 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-09T17:05:09.015Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: Shell
- Homepage: http://luispedro.org
- Size: 1020 KB
- Stars: 7
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.rst
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README
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Libertarian Welfare State
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This is a book which will be called *The Libertarian Welfare State.* The major
thesis is explained in the following quote from Hayek:
There is little reason why the government should not also play some role,
or even take the intiative, in such areas as social insurance and
education, or temporarily subsidize certain experimental developments. Our
problem here is not so much the aims as the methods of government action.
It argues that a libertarian welfare state is not only more efficient, but
morally superior as it treats the beneficiaries with greater respect.
It can be seen as a liberaltarian project, if you wish, but I rather just call
it straight libertarian. Or we can start calling Hayek and Milton Friedman
liberaltarians.
I will be using the twitter moniker
`@libwelfare `__
for this project (in case you do not care to follow my other ramblings).