What It Means to Be a Libertarian

by Charles Murray

‘Charles is very data driven. These are not the meanderings of some philosopher. Charles points out, and to me proves, for instance, that the welfare state produces the very misery that it was supposed to eliminate. I was drawn to this book because he tries to look beyond what works economically. When he writes about human happiness and about the end objectives of the way we try to organise society, I think he adds a lot. He’s talking about simple, clear, intelligible rules – a willingness to tolerate a lot of freedom going on within certain boundary lines or rules.’