Key Ideas

• How has it emerged?

  Came in the 1970s
• New Right libertarianism


  seen in the hostility towards socially progressive liberal policies
• Economy


  Welfare is too expensive
• Libertarian


  Emerged to describe a movement of thinkers and writers who rejected the modern interpretation of liberalism of Keynes and Rawls
• State


  Argued that enabling state was a mistake
• Left Libertarianism


  Support for self-ownership = human beings are naturally equal and have rights

  Opposition to private ownership of natural resources= no individual should own natural resources