Bitcoin (BTC) is often cited as Libertarian. However, the technology underpinning Bitcoin, blockchain, has properties that make it ideally suited to Socialist paradigms. Current literature supports the Libertarian viewpoint by focusing on the ability of Bitcoin to bypass central authority and provide anonymity; rarely is there an examination of blockchain technology’s capacity for decentralised...

There is a growing concern in most countries to address the problem of inequities in health-care within the context of financial restraints on the public purse and the realities of health professions that are influenced strongly by the economic priorities of free-market economies. Dental professionals, like other health professionals, are well aware that the public expects oral health-related s...

I t would be rather unusual for someone to argue publicly that the world's rich have no obligations at all with respect to the global poor. Many, however, claim that the obligations of the affluent countries are both fairly weak and minimal. This claim is typically arrived at via two premises: one is normative, the other factual. The normative premise asserts that while we are under a strict ob...

Contemporary debates about free will and moral responsibility frequently focus on arguments around Frankfurt-style cases (FSCs). Their centrality reflects the fact that they have widely been seen to constitute a decisive step forward in a debate that had seemed to be irredeemably bogged down. In Fischer’s (1994) influential phrase, they break the ‘dialectical stalemate’ that had come to be char...

In 1980s Norway, a group committed to libertarian ideology became influential within Fremskrittspartiet. This new party known for its opposition not only taxation and public spending, but also non-western immigration. The libertarians the same party, however, advocated open borders. were ousted from in 1994, libertarianism has remained key plank party’s otherwise national-conservative ideology....

Any strategy to mitigate climate change will have economic and political implications that are incompatible with libertarian ideals of free markets. These created an environment rhetorical adversity in which disinformation is systematically disseminated by a variety politically economically motivated actors who seek delay or defang policies. I review the strategies denial how they fit within hi...

The article is devoted to defining the main socio-philosophical views on liberalism and libertarianism in scientific discourse of political social philosophy; highlighting process integration liberal ideas into Ukrainian educational policy implementation provisions practice; investigating origins modern describing its conceptual positions, forms types. study identified principles, compared prin...

This article provides an introduction to the special issue on post-neoliberalism. It does so by considering challenges neoliberal order that have come, post-financial crisis, from political right. looks closely at relation of neoliberalism conservatism, one hand, and libertarianism, other, in address threat posed paleoconservatism, neoreactionary politics, ordonationalism, libertarian paternali...

In Anarchy, State and Utopia, Nozick presented his doctrine of right libertarianism, largely a contemporary restatement Locke’s moral imperative that an individual’s rights to life, liberty, property are absolute place limits on state action. Parallelly, espoused the free-market system as framework not only respects individual but ensures material benefits. While free market results in radical ...