Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work

From: Ideas on Liberty | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Sager, Ryan H | Copyright information

Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work

by Jennifer Roback Morse

Spence Publishing Company * 2001 * 273 pages * $27.95

In Love and Economics, Jennifer Roback Morse explores territory where many libertarians fear to tread: The importance of the family to civil society. In her view, libertarians have spent so much time making the case for the autonomy of the individual that they have become reluctant to consider the importance of strong, and even re...

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