Peace, love & liberty
Subtitle: war is not inevitable
By: edited by Tom G. Palmer
Contributors: Students for Liberty
Publisher: Students for Liberty
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780898031768
Subjects: Peace; Politics and war; Liberty
Other titles: Peace, love and liberty :
Description: "There is no such thing as being 'undecided' about war. It is a binary choice. If you re not for it, you have to be against it. The essays in this book offer evidence and arguments for peace. The writers advance peace not merely as a moral ideal or even a desirable goal, but as an eminently practical objective. Too often peace activists have thought it sufficient merely to call for peace and to denounce war, without investigating the economic, social, political, and psychological conditions of peace. They may oppose this or that war, without considering what causes wars--for example, fallacies about clashes of civilizations, economic conflict, protectionism, and the zero-sum worldview--and then addressing those causes. Peace is not an impractical fantasy, nor is it something for which one must sacrifice prosperity or progress or freedom. In fact, peace, freedom, prosperity, and progress go hand-in-hand. The essays in this book appeal to the mind. They are anchored in sound history, economic reality, empirical psychology, political science, and hard-headed logic, as well as art and the aesthetic imagination. If the heart is to be engaged on behalf of peace, it should be engaged through the mind."--page 4 of cover.
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Table of contents: title: Peace is a choice / Tom G. Palmer; title: The decline of war and conceptions of human nature / Steven Pinker; title: The economics of peace: how richer neighbors are very god news / Emmanuel Martin; title: Interview with a businessman for peace - Chris Rufer / Tom G. Palmer; title: The free trade peace / Erik Gartzke; title: The political economy of empire and war / Tom G. Palmer; title: The American enlightenment's wariness of war / Robert M. S. McDonald; title: War's declining significance as a policy tool in the contemporary age / Justin Logan; title: The militarization of policing / Radley Balko; title: The philosophy of peace or the philosophy of conflict / Tom G. Palmer; title: The art of war / Sarah Skwire; title: The war prayer / Mark Twain; title: Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owens; title: Parable of the old man and the young / Wilfred Owens; title: Peace begins with you / Cathy Reisenwitz.