Actual Ethics

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Actual Ethics by James R. Otteson Cambridge University Press * 2006 * 349 pages * $75.00 hardcover; $25.99 paperback

Reviewed by Tibor R. Machan

More and more books sympathetic to classical liberalism and libertarianism are coming on the market from publishers that haven't offered such works until recently. Cambridge University Press has started to take on such works regularly.

This is important because in the contest of ideas, it matters where the ideas are published. It influences their use in classrooms, the promotion of the authors, and so forth, so when a certain line of thinking gains a forum at the more prestigious publishing houses, that can be identified …