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For the People

Disciplines:
politics
politics/policy
public choice

Summary

Aaron Ross Powell and Trevor Burrus's libertarian policy case — arguing for the substantive policy agenda that follows from taking individual liberty and constitutional limits seriously.

Core Contribution

A constructive libertarian policy agenda: rather than focusing primarily on what government should not do, Powell and Burrus lay out what libertarian reform would look like across criminal justice, housing, immigration, occupational licensing, and education. Representative of the Cato Institute tradition of translating libertarian principles into specific institutional reform proposals.

Historical Influences

F.A. Hayek Milton Friedman

Intellectual Lineage

Libertarian Political Philosophy Cato Institute

Contemporaries & Peers

The Machinery of Freedom The Problem of Political Authority

Minds Influenced

Libertarian Policy Discourse

Intellectual Posterity

Libertarian Policy Literature

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