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When members of the media address politicians or report on social problems they assume that whatever issues are important in society must be a matter ...
Selected Columns
In "Neither Left nor Right," a collection of his columns, Machan, a relentless advocate of the political philosophy of libertarianism, offers his alwa...
A Radical Reconsideration of the American Political Tradition
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In Neither Left nor Right, a collection of his columns, Machan, a relentless advocate of the political philosophy of libertarianism, offers his always...
A Profession for Human Wealthcare
Government interference in free enterprise is growing. Should they intercede in business ethics and corporate responsibility; and if so, to what exten...
The Pseudo-Science of B.F. Skinner was Professor Tibor Machan's first book. Now, nearly forty years after its initial publication and after three doze...
The authors begin their discussion of business ethics with the notion that business is an honorable profession, not a wild beast driven by crass self-...
Ever since the publication in 1974 of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, libertarianism has been much discussed within political philosophy, ...
The Liberty Option advances the idea that for compelling moral as well as practical reasons it is the free society - with the rule of law founded on t...
For and Against
Libertarianism: For and Against offers dueling perspectives on the scope of legitimate government. Tibor R. Machan, a well-known political philosopher...
This book takes an unflinching look at the difficult, often emotional issues that arise when egalitarianism collies with individual liberties, ultimat...
What special problems arise for managers and employees of companies when they do business in countries and cultures other than their own? The essays i...
Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist
The Man Without a Hobby is the memoir of Tibor Machan, a first generation refugee who escaped both a political and a personal tyranny early in his lif...
Virtue in Civil Society
Machan argues that generosity is an important virtue for citizens of a free society and that it can be cultivated only through freedom....
Machan's book explores all the major themes of Ayn Rand's philosophical thought. He shows the frequent strengths and occasional weaknesses of Rand's m...
The author defends a libertarian conception of a free society, one in which negative rights - rights not to be interfered with in peaceful pursuits - ...
Science Funding in a Free Society
The contributors to this volume explore the implications of government funding of scientific research and offer alternatives to the heavy reliance on ...
In Liberty and Democracy, contributors grapple with the issue of the proper role of democracy in a society that is committed to respecting protecting ...
This work focuses on the topic of freedom. The author starts with the old issue of free will - do we as individual human beings choose our conduct, at...
A Non-Utopian Vision
Tibor Machan's central political imperative in The Promise of Liberty is one that he has found borne out by history, analysis, and personal experience...
Explorations in Truth and Reason
Especially when there is a lot of political rhetoric in the air, those of us with strong political convictions are inclined to reflect on just why we ...
The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being
In Classical Individualism, Tibor R. Machan argues that individualism is far from being dead. Machan identifies, develops and defends what he calls cl...
Why We are Nature's Favorite
This book challenges the notion that humans aren't any more important than, say, ants, and ethics and politics must be adjusted accordingly as not to ...
Examining some of the special ethical dimensions of work, the contributors look at the basic issues of the labor market and offer some controversial a...
This essay argues that, contrary to widespread academic sentiments and impressions, the institution of private property rights fully accords with a se...
Examining an Honorable Profession
Chesher and Machan explore the cultural, philosophical, and theological sources of the bad reputation suffered by business in Western culture. They sa...
Weaving Together the Human and the Divine
Human Agency and Society
If, however, we possess the capacity to take the initiative and determine on our own some of what we do, then we are responsible and often culpable wh...
Reframing the Argument for the Free Society
The purely economic view of individualism, homo economicus, cannot provide a basis for understanding human reality. Machan mounts a robust argument fo...
A Bourgeois Reassessment
For some time there has been no direct critique of Marx's ideas from those who value the position he most harshly attacked, bourgeois capitalism. The ...
This volume explores whether government action is in fact indispensable in the face of natural calamities--earthquakes, floods, and the like--and what...
A Philosophical Argument
A philosophical argument that places a brief statement for the case for the free market system of economics, the text is based on a view of human bein...
Essays on the Idea of a Free Society
Has Marxism finally shown itself to be a bankrupt social philosophy? Why should we strive for economic democracy? Are individual human rights to be pr...
Interlocutors, Intrinsicon and Damon
This work is a classic dialogue between two philosophers, with the unusual twist that it was actually conducted, not fabricated, by two different phil...
Recovering Determinate Reality in Philosophy, Science, and Everyday Life
The question of objectivity is whether human beings are capable of knowing reality just as it is, or whether there is some necessary distortion in our...