The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism

Have you ever wondered what libertarians think about vaccine
mandates? About gun control? About racial and sexual inequalities? While
libertarianism is well known as a political theory relating to the
scope and justification of state authority, the breadth and depth of
libertarian work on a wide range of other topics in social and political
philosophy is less well known. This handbook is the first definitive
reference on libertarianism that offers an in-depth survey of the
central ideas from across philosophy, politics, and economics, including
applications to contemporary policy issues.

The forty chapters in this work provide an encyclopedic overview of
libertarian scholarship, from foundational debates about natural rights
theories vs. utilitarian approaches, to policy debates over immigration,
punishment and policing, and intellectual property. Each chapter
presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of historical and
contemporary libertarian thought on its subject, and thus serves as an
essential guide to current scholarship, and a starting place for
discovering future lines of research. The book also contains a section
on criticisms of libertarianism, written by leading scholars from the
feminist, republican, socialist, and conservative perspectives, as well
as a section on how libertarian political theory relates to various
schools of economic thought, such as the Chicago, Austrian, Bloomington,
and Public Choice schools.

This book is an essential and comprehensive guide for anyone interested in libertarianism, whether sympathizer or critic.