Outline of libertarianism
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to libertarianism, a political philosophy that upholds liberty as its principal objective. As a result, libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and freedom of choice, emphasizing political freedom, voluntary association and the primacy of individual judgment.
Nature of libertarianism
; Supports:- Economic freedom – the freedom to receive the full value of one's labour, or to produce, trade and consume any goods and services acquired without the use of force, fraud or theft
- Egalitarianism – the idea that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status
- Free society – a society in which one has the freedom to obtain the power and resources to fulfill their own potential
- Individual responsibility – the idea that a person is responsible for their own actions and their own lives
- Personal development – methods, skills and strategies by which individuals can effectively direct their own activities toward the achievement of objectives and includes goal setting, decision making, focusing, planning, scheduling, task tracking, self-evaluation, self-intervention, self-development and so on
- Self-governance – the idea that a person or group are able to exercise all of the necessary functions of power without intervention from any authority which they cannot themselves alter
- Self-ownership – the concept of property in one's own person, expressed as the moral or natural right of a person to be the exclusive controller of his or her own body and life
- Voluntary association – a group of individuals who enter into an agreement as volunteers to form a body to accomplish a purpose
- Authoritarianism – a form of social organization characterized by submission to authority
- Coercion – the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner by use of threats or intimidation or some other form of pressure or force
- Discrimination – a form of collectivism that involves treating people based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit
- Imperialism – as defined by the Dictionary of Human Geography, it is "the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination"
- Abortion
- Anarcho-capitalism and minarchism and libertarian municipalism
- Capital punishment
- Employee–employer relationship vs. workers' self-management and worker cooperatives
- Environmentalism
- Foreign intervention
- Free-market and laissez-faire capitalism vs. communism and socialism
- Immigration
- Inheritance
- Intellectual property
- Law
- LGBT rights
- Objectivism
- Political alliances
- State
- Wage labor vs. wage slavery
Branches and schools of libertarianism
- Agorism
- Anarchism
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Austrian School
- Autarchism
- Bleeding-heart libertarianism
- Christian libertarianism
- Civil libertarianism
- Classical liberalism
- Communalism
- Consequentialist libertarianism
- Crypto-anarchism
- Deontological libertarianism
- Free-market anarchism
- Geolibertarianism
- Green libertarianism
- Individualist anarchism
- Laissez-faire
- Left-libertarianism
- Left-wing market anarchism
- Liberism
- Libertarian Christianity
- Libertarian conservatism
- Libertarian municipalism
- Libertarian paternalism
- Libertarian socialism
- Market liberalism
- Market socialism
- Minarchism
- Mutualism
- Paleolibertarianism
- Panarchism
- Philosophical anarchism
- Propertarianism
- Right-libertarianism
- Voluntaryism
Origins of libertarianism
- Age of Enlightenment
- Classical liberalism
- Individualist anarchism
- Libertarian socialism
- Jeffersonian democracy
- Natural law
- Social anarchism
Libertarian theory and politics
- Criticism of libertarianism
- Debates within libertarianism
- Libertarian Party
- Libertarianism in Hong Kong
- Libertarianism in South Africa
- Libertarianism in the United Kingdom
- Libertarianism in the United States
- List of libertarian political parties
Libertarian ideals
- Civil liberties
- Co-operative economics
- Counter-economics
- Decentralization
- Economic freedom
- Egalitarianism
- Free market
- Free society
- Free trade
- Free will
- Freedom of association
- Freedom of contract
- Homestead principle
- Individualism
- Laissez-faire
- Law of equal liberty
- Liberty
- Limited government
- Methodological individualism
- Natural rights
- Night watchman state
- Non-aggression
- Non-interventionism
- Non-politics
- Non-voting
- Participatory economics
- Personal development
- Private defense agency
- Polycentric law
- Property
- Self-governance
- Self-ownership
- Spontaneous order
- Stateless society
- Subjective theory of value
- Subsidiarity
- Tax resistance
- Title-transfer theory of contract
- Worker's self management
- Voluntary association
- Voluntary society
Philosophers and economists who have influenced libertarianism
Anarchists
- Émile Armand – one of the most influential individualist anarchists of the early 20th century
- Mikhail Bakunin – one of the main theorists of collectivist anarchism and a major influence on the development of left-libertarianism
- William Godwin – the first modern proponent of anarchism, whose political views are outlined in his book Political Justice
- Robert Nozick – philosopher and author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon – the first self-described anarchist and founder of mutualism
- Lysander Spooner – notable individualist anarchist and founder of the American Letter Mail Company
- Max Stirner – founder of egoist anarchism
- Benjamin Tucker – a leading theorist of individualist anarchism in the 19th century
- Josiah Warren – the first known American anarchist and author of the first anarchist periodical The Peaceful Revolutionist
Economists
- Frédéric Bastiat – 19th century creator of the concept of opportunity cost
- Milton Friedman – Nobel Prize-winning monetarist economist, notable for his advocacy of economic deregulation and privatization
- Robin Hahnel – modern participatory economics scholar and libertarian socialist
- Friedrich Hayek – Nobel Prize-winning Austrian School economist, notable for his political work The Road to Serfdom
- Elinor Ostrom – Nobel Prize-winning common pool resource theorist and environmentalist
- Ludwig von Mises – philosopher, Austrian School economist, sociologist and classical liberal
- Murray Rothbard – founder of anarcho-capitalism and a leading Austrian School economist
- E. F. Schumacher – internationally influential British economist and statistician and author of Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb – statistician, philosopher and author of The Black Swan
Objectivists
- Ayn Rand – the creator of the philosophy of Objectivism
- Leonard Peikoff – founder of the Ayn Rand Institute and Rand's designated intellectual heir
Others
- Murray Bookchin – the founder of libertarian municipalism and a leading theorist of the social ecology movement
- Noam Chomsky – pioneering linguist and social critic
- Karl Hess – libertarian socialist and tax resistor
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe – developed extensive work on argumentation ethics
- David Hume – Scottish Enlightenment writer whose Treatise of Human Nature argued that rules of justice originated from many human actions, not rational calculation
- Ron Paul – politician and 2012 presidential candidate
- Henry David Thoreau – one of the leading philosophers of American transcendentalism and anarcho-pacifism
- Robert Anton Wilson – radical author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy