The Struggle for a Better World

In The Struggle for a Better World Peter J. Boettke explores how the social sciences and political economy in particular help us understand society and its institutions of governance. Boettke advances an approach for understanding articulating and pursuing a coherent and consistent vision of a society of free and responsible individuals who may prosper through voluntary participation in the market and their communities. In this volume a collection of addresses lectures and papers over the past two decades Boettke articulates ideas which if consistently pursued can help fulfill liberalisms emancipatory promise to advance human flourishing and overcome adversity caused by economic social and political injustice and repression. Boettke advocates for liberal cosmopolitanism grounded in the principles of equality justice and liberty and the basic recognition that all people are dignified equals as the best hope for a better world.