Self-Control or State Control? You Decide - Softcover

Dr. Tom G. Palmer is executive vice president for international programs at the Atlas Network, where he works with a global network of over 450 think tanks and research institutes to advance the principles of classical liberalism.

Dr.Palmer is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, where he was formerly vice president for international programs and director of the Center for the Promotion of Human Rights.

He was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, and a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He is a member of the board of advisors of Students For Liberty, a director of the Institute of Economic Studies Europe, and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the international society of classical liberal thinkers founded by F. A. Hayek after World War II.

He has published articles and reviews in scholarly journals, as well as in popular publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the New York Times, Die Welt, Slate, Al Hayat, Caixing, the Washington Post, and the Spectator of London. He received his BA in liberal arts from St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland; his MA in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC; and his doctorate in politics from Oxford University. His scholarship has been published in books from Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and other academic publishers, and he is the author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Thought, History, and Practice (expanded edition published in 2014) and editor of and contributor to a number of books, including The Morality of Capitalism (2011), After the Welfare State (2012), Why Liberty (2013), and Peace, Love, and Liberty (2014).

Life is full of difficult choices. It requires courage to take responsibility for your own life and carve your own path. However, that is also the best way to ensure a successful future and a prosperous, healthy society. If I were a young person pursuing a productive and rewarding life, I would buy a copy of this book and study it carefully. - John Mackey, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market --Whole Foods Market

Tom Palmer's new book masterfully integrates the sciences of human life to provide the knowledge of how to care for ourselves and our families and communities without using coercion. If more people knew what this slim book explains, the world would be freer, more prosperous, more just, and happier. That is pretty good for a short book. - Peter Goettler. President and CEO, Cato Institute --CATO Institute

This important book is in the tradition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments in which self-control is necessary in the service of decentralized processes of human socioeconomic betterment. State control can never substitute for self-control without destroying freedom and all that is human in both society and economy. - Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics --Chapman University