The Liberty Option Tibor R. Machan May 2003, 104 pages ISBN 0 907845 630 (paperback), £8.95/$17.90 Available at reduced (subscription) price via: essays in political and cultural criticism Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com  Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk Secure ordering "The arguments are anchored largely in the choppy waters of American politics, but they nonetheless have a wider resonance. A good read" Commonwealth Lawyer "A technical but well argued defence of liberty against statism in its various forms."  Network

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 the principles of private property rights, its complete respect for individual sovereignty and properly limited legal authorities -- not one or another version of statism that serves justice best, is most prosperous and encourages the greatest measure of individual virtue on the part of the citizenry.  The work shows why this is so and lays out some of the most crucial implications of the idea.  While the book presents a principled approach to politics, it is firmly grounded in the best and most up to date understanding of human community life and history as well as many of its complications, challenges, adversities and prospects.

Tibor Machan teaches ethics at Chapman University and is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He has written a number of books on classical liberal theory, including Classical Individualism (Routledge, 1998).

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