Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and index.

Introduction / Malcolm Murray -- Contractarianism -- Some remarks on the foundations of libertarianism / E.J. Bond -- Contracting justice / John T. Sanders -- Is agreement enough? / Tibor R. Machan -- Does scepticism beget libertarianism? : a response to Narveson on reason, morality and politics / Leo Groarke -- Contractarian education / Chris Tucker -- From contractarianism to libertarianism -- The value of values : the importance of autonomy in contractarian reasoning / Susan Dimock -- Simple games and complex ethics / Peter Danielson -- Why contractarians are not libertarians ... evolutionarily speaking / Malcolm Murray -- Getting the baseline right / Paul Viminitz -- Property and liberty -- Liberty, property and the libertarian idea / Ann Levey -- Who owns me, me or my mother? : how to escape Okin's problem for Nozick's and Narveson's theory of entitlement / Duncan MacIntosh -- On original appropriation / Peter Vallentyne -- Morality as an evolutionarily stable strategy : a naturalistic account of libertarianism / Grant A. Brown -- Reconciling radicals : market contractarianism and fundamentalist utilitarianism / Sheldon Wein -- Social contract, game theory and liberty : responding to my critics / Jan Narveson.

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