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This article is a list of major figures in the theory of libertarianism, a philosophy asserting that individuals have a right to acquire, keep, and exchange their holdings and that the primary purpose of government is to protect these rights. ==Libertarian thinkers== * Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563): French judge, writer, and "a founder of modern political philosophy in France." * Josiah Warren (1798–1874): Inventor, social theorist, and believer in "individual sovereignty." Influenced John Stuart Mill. States "commit more crimes upon persons and property than all criminals put together."〔 * Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850): French classical liberal theorist, political economist, author of ''The Law''. * Adin Ballou (1803–1890): American Christian anarchist.〔 * William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879): American abolitionist libertarian and journalist. Influenced Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and anti-slavery crusader.〔 * Lysander Spooner (1808–1887): American abolitionist, lawyer, entrepreneur, and individualist anarchist theorist. Author of ''The Unconstitutionality of Slavery'' and ''No Treason''. * Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) * Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812–1886): Abolitionist who tried to sell Texas to Britain to prevent it becoming a slave state.〔 * Gustave de Molinari (1819– 28 January 1912): French liberal economist and author of ''The Production of Security'' in which he argued that security can be produced better through the market than through government monopoly policing. * Herbert Spencer (1820–1903): Anarchist British parliamentarian. Advocated the "right of people to ignore the state." 〔Doherty, ''Radicals for Capitalism''〕 * Auberon Herbert (1838–1906): Anarchist British parliamentarian, founder of "voluntaryism" and anti-democrat. Advocated that the voting majority has no more right to decide a man's life than "either the bayonet-surrounded emperor or the infallible church."〔 * Benjamin Tucker (1854–1939): American editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical ''Liberty''. Called anarchists "simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats." * Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973): Austrian philosopher, economist, and author of ''Human Action''. After his death, his name was used for the Ludwig von Mises Institute. * Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968): American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and libertarian political theorist. * Leonard Read (1898–1983): American economist and founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, America's first libertarian think-tank. * Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992): Austrian economist and political thinker, author of ''The Road to Serfdom''. * Ayn Rand (1905–1982): American philosopher and novelist whose books ''The Fountainhead'' and ''Atlas Shrugged'' influenced many towards libertarianism. * Milton Friedman (1912–2006): Nobel Prize–winning American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. Advocated free market capitalism in books like ''Capitalism and Freedom''. * Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995): American philosopher, economist, historian, and the leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism. Authored ''For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto'' and ''The Ethics of Liberty''. * Robert Nozick (1938–2002): American philosopher and author of ''Anarchy, State, and Utopia''. * Samuel Edward Konkin III (1947–2004): American political philosopher and author of ''New Libertarian Manifesto'' in which he promotes a philosophy he named agorism, a revolutionary form of market anarchism that aims to dissolve the state through counter-economic activity. * Wendy McElroy (1951–present): Canadian individualist anarchist, individualist feminist, and cofounder of ''The Voluntaryist'' magazine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of libertarian thinkers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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