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Libertarianism

By Eric Mack

Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2018.

Pp. vii, 162. $19.95 paperback.

Eric Mack has spent a career producing cutting-edge work at the forefront of libertarian political thought. In , Mack takes a step back and offers an accessible and broad overview of libertarian political philosophy. The book covers what libertarianism is, libertarianism’s intellectual forefathers, intralibertarian disputes, libertarianism’s most serious criticisms (along with responses to these criticisms), and much more. Perhaps the most valuable feature of the book is Mack’s emphasis on just how big a tent libertarianism is as a political philosophy; many different normative theories lead to a set of broadly libertarian

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