"Empirical research does not, as of yet, seem to have legitimately gotten anyone 100 percent of the way to libertarianism; there remain, at the very least, some public goods and, in principle, the need for economic redistribution. Libertarian philosophy fills the gap between what free-market economists can prove about the undesirable consequences of government intervention and the absolute prohibition of all intervention. Consequentialist and nonconsequentialist arguments for libertarianism may be antithetical in principle, but they are symbiotic in practice."
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Jeffrey Friedman (political scientist)
Jeffrey Friedman (March 25, 1959 – December 2, 2022) was a political scientist and editor of Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society.
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