Self-Control or State Control? You Decide

The libertarian philosophy is often associated only with economics or with resistance to social norms.

In this path-breaking new book, editor Tom Palmer weaves together a series of essays, theoretical and practical, showing how to live a happier life, be a better person, and enjoy the benefits of freedom and responsibility.

Case studies with scientific, historical, and philosophical insights are offered to create a handbook for free people who want to live in free, prosperous, cooperative, peaceful, and just societies.

For those looking for alternatives to the Nanny State, the Prohibitionist State, and the Welfare State, this book is a good place to start.

Dr. Tom G. Palmer is executive vice president for international programs at the Atlas Network, where he works with a global network of over 450 think tanks and research institutes to advance the principles of classical liberalism.

Dr.Palmer is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, where he was formerly vice president for international programs and director of the Center for the Promotion of Human Rights.

He was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, and a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He is a member of the board of advisors of Students For Liberty, a director of the Institute of Economic Studies Europe, and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the international society of classical liberal thinkers founded by F. A. Hayek after World War II.

He has published articles and reviews in scholarly journals, as well as in popular publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the New York Times, Die Welt, Slate, Al Hayat, Caixing, the Washington Post, and the Spectator of London. He received his BA in liberal arts from St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland; his MA in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC; and his doctorate in politics from Oxford University. His scholarship has been published in books from Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and other academic publishers, and he is the author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Thought, History, and Practice (expanded edition published in 2014) and editor of and contributor to a number of books, including The Morality of Capitalism (2011), After the Welfare State (2012), Why Liberty (2013), and Peace, Love, and Liberty (2014).