An adult making an honest living and minding his own business, Murray writes, deserves to be free. He tells how to deal with government restrictions as well as restrictions that are self-imposed. You'll learn how to avoid social restrictions without becoming a hermit, how to avoid the common problems of marriage without giving up love, how to achieve big tax savings without going to jail, and how to succeed in your career and still have a life. I well remember how David Friedman used to run intellectual circles around me, when we shared an apartment at the University of Chicago. It abounds with keen insights and provocative lines.
Good liberals steal it.
This is one of the early books to make a case for free market medicine, free market environmentalism, and much more. But a lynch mob is majority rule. But again we run into difficulties, for the Constitution can be amended to say anything the society wishes it to say. The moral basis of capitalism is the right of each individual to live his own life, for his own sake. The book couldn't be ignored, and it got a lot of ink.