School of Thought 101 Great Liberal Thinkers profiles the lives and ideas of some of the leading thinkers on individual liberty from ancient times to the present day. Award-winning author Eamonn Butler outlines key elements of liberal thought and takes a chronological look at those who shaped it across the centuries. He identifies their common goals but also highlights their differing views on, for example, the extent of government involvement in our daily lives. For anyone interested in politics, government, social institutions, capitalism, rights, liberty and morality, School of Thought 101 Great Liberal Thinkers provides a clear and concise introduction to a set of radical ideas and the thinkers behind them.
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Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 15 Aug 2019
Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780255367769
About Eamonn Butler
Eamonn Butler is Director of the Adam Smith Institute one of the worlds leading policy think tanks. He holds degrees in economics and psychology a PhD in philosophy and an honorary DLitt. In the 1970s he worked in Washington for the US House of Representatives and taught philosophy at Hillsdale College Michigan before returning to the UK to help found the Adam Smith Institute. A former winner of the Freedom Medal awarded by Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge and the UK National Free Enterprise Award Eamonn is currently Secretary of the Mont Pelerin Society. Eamonn is the author of many books including introductions to the pioneering economists and thinkers Adam Smith Milton Friedman F. A. Hayek Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand. He has also published primers on classical liberalism public choice Magna Carta and the Austrian School of Economics as well as The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Best Book on the Market. His Foundations of a Free Society won the 2014 Fisher Prize. He is co-author of Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls and of a series of books on IQ. He is a frequent contributor to print broadcast and online media.