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Freedom in context: A review essay of The Dialectics of Liberty

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  • Alexander W. Craig

    (Beloit College)

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The contributors to The Dialectics of Liberty demonstrate that libertarians can engage in a careful context-sensitive analysis of social behavior and political ideals. The book refutes the notion that libertarians must be insensitive to nuances in social environments and reliant on a woefully oversimplified conception of individuals, businesses, and governments. In this review, I first discuss the nature of dialectics, making explicit the mostly implicit definition running between the chapters of The Dialectics. I then summarize several of the chapters, synthesizing from them generalizable lessons about what Austrian economists and classical liberal scholars more generally can learn by being mindful of social context, synthesizing disparate ideas, and transcending dichotomies.

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  • Alexander W. Craig, 2024. "Freedom in context: A review essay of The Dialectics of Liberty," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 37(2), pages 213-224, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:revaec:v:37:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1007_s11138-022-00590-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s11138-022-00590-z
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    Keywords

    Dialectics; libertarianism; methodology; political philosophy;
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    JEL classification:

    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • B4 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology
    • B53 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Austrian
    • Y3 - Miscellaneous Categories - - Book Reviews
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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