文档介绍：Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative
Why I, Too, Am Not
a Conservative
The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism
James M. Buchanan
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, e Mason University
and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Center
for Study of Public Choice, e Mason University, US
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Buchanan, James M.
Why I, too am not a conservative : the normative vision of classical liberalism /
James M. Buchanan.
p. cm.
1. Liberalism. 2. Conservatism. I. Title.
2006
—dc22 2005049719
ISBN 1 84542 314 3
Typeset by Cambrian Typesetters, Camberley, Surrey
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
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Contents
Preface vi
Acknowledgments vii
1 Why I, too, am not a conservative 1
2 Classical liberalism and the perfectibility of man 11
3 Normative presuppositions for democracy 22
4 Beyond law: the institutionalized ethics of liberal order 30
5 The equivocal ethics of liberalism 40
6 The soul of classical liberalism 52
7 Classical liberalism as anizing ideal 62
8 The sense munity in Hayekian moral order 72
9 The Hayek difference 86
10 God, the state and the market 92
11 Madison’s angels 95
12 The emergence of a classical liberal: a confessional exercise 98
Index 107
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Preface
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