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What Type Of Libertarian Are You?

Source:
http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2009/07/09/what-type-of-libertarian-are-you/

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution draws from Tom Palmer�s new book
and comes up with 5 main categories of libertarians:

    1. Cato-influenced (for lack of a better word).  There is an
orthodox reading of what �being libertarian� means, defined by the
troika of free markets, non-interventionism, and civil liberties.  It
is based on individual rights but does not insist on anarchism.  A
ruling principle is that libertarians should not endorse state
interventions.  I read Palmer�s book as belonging to this tradition,
broadly speaking.

    2. Rothbardian anarchism.  Free-market protection agencies will
replace government-as-we-know-it.  War is evil and the problems of
anarchy pale in comparison.  David Friedman offered a more
utilitarian-sounding version of this approach, shorn of Misesian
influence.

    3. Mises Institute nationalism.  Gold standard, a priori
reasoning, monetary apocalypse, and suspicious of immigration because
maybe private landowners would not have let those people into their
living rooms.

    4. Jeff Friedman and Critical Review: Everything is up for grabs,
let�s be consequentialists and focus on the welfare state because
that�s where the action is.  Marx is dead.  The case for some version
of libertarianism ultimately rests upon voter ignorance and, dare I
say it, voter irrationality.

    5. �Hayek libertarianism.�  All or most of the great libertarian
thinkers are ultimately compatible with each other and we have a big
tent of all sorts of classical liberal ideas.  Hayek and Friedman are
the chosen �public faces� of this approach.  �There�s a classical
liberal tradition and classical liberal values and we can be fuzzy on
a lot of other things.�

As good a distinction as any other I suspect � curious how people
would define Australian Libertarians � if along similar lines, other
ones etc.
(h/t Reason Magazine

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