"The Routledge Handbook Of Classical Liberalism | Politics

The Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism provides a comprehensive analysis of classical liberal theory including a survey of the theory’s central ideas and arguments and the application of these ideas to contemporary issues. Chapters providing theoretical analyses are interwoven with coverage of wide‑ranging concrete applications such as public health and healthcare technology policing taxation and wealth constitutional structures and more. Across these areas this handbook demonstrates how classical liberalism provides a unified approach over a divergent set of problems providing a statement of modern classical liberalism serving as a research tool for a wide variety of individuals across the ideological spectrum. Classical liberalism is a systematic effort to ensure that the existence of the state does not abridge the fundamental rights and liberties of individuals especially including property and contract rights. It holds that laws must satisfy the criteria of the Rule of Law so that stable relations between the individual and the state may develop. The Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism is an authoritative and key reference text for students academics and researchers engaged in the study of political ideologies political science political economy economics law social policy and related fields.|The Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism | Politics