A Acton (Lord Acton), 186, 192 Adair, Douglas, 243 Adelson, Howard, 191, 193, 194 Agnew, Spiro, 164, 289 Ahiakpor, James C.W., 1–4 Aitken, Hugh G.J., 243 Akerlof, George A., 78 Akers, Becky, 250 Alberdi, Juan Bautista, 83 Alchian, Armen, 16, 210 Alexeev, Michael, 63 Allen, Bill, 16 Allen, Donald H., 201, 202, 203, 209 Allen, Gary, 56 Allen, Walter, 217 Allen, Woody, 181 Allende, Salvador, 94 Anderson, Benjamin, 290 Anderson, Bob, 85 Anderson, Martin, 62 Anderson, Terry, 43, 120, 255 Angasan, Anisha, 325 Angell, Wayne, 135 Anthony, Susan, 230 Antiseri, Dario, 229 Apostel, Leo, 366, 367, 368, 370 Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, 28, 226, 227, 234, 341, 345, 394 Aranson, Peter, 256 Aristotle, 6, 199, 216, 235, 318, 320, 322, 341, 342 Armentano, Dom T., 5–13, 90, 245 Armentano, Paul, 13 Aron, Raymond, 117 Asimov, Issac, 152 Avio, Ken, 350 Axinn, Mark, 250 Ayau, Manuel, 85, 96 403 Names INdex B Baba (Meher Baba), 218 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 54 Baden, John, 43, 119, 120, 121, 255 Baird, Charles W., 4, 14–16, 255 Balibar, Étienne, 179 Balindy, Alexander, 313 Ballinger, Willis, 188 Balzac, Henri, 109 Barasch, David, 114 Barnes, Harry Elmer, 186, 331 Barnett, Andy, 398 Barnett, Randy, 43, 179, 198 Barry, David, 177 Barry, Norman, 17–23, 196 Bartlett, Bruce, 245 Bartley, W.W., 256 Barzel, Yoram, 137 Bastiat, Frédéric, 100, 117, 120, 121, 187, 198, 202, 205, 259, 270, 280, 286, 325 Bate, Roger, 120 Bauder, Neal, 325 Baxendale, Toby, 24–32 Beaird, Paul, 75 Beaulier, Scott, 65 Beck, Lewis White, 223 Becker, Gary, 53, 64 Bell, Daniel, 110, 118 Bellamy, Edward, 45 Bellante, Don, 157 Belloc, Hilaire, 186, 190 Belz, Herman, 390 Benegas, Alberto, 96 Bennett, James T., 32–36, 65, 173, 255 Benson, Bruce L., 36–44, 157, 184, 237, 255 Bentham, Jeremy, 357 Berger, Peter L., 380, 385 Bergland, David, 44–50, 57, 372
404 I <strong>Chose</strong> <strong>Liberty</strong>: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 109, 147 Berlitz, Charles, 387 Berman, Harold, 43, 189 Bernanke, Ben, 81 Berns, Walter, 118 Bish, Robert, 350 Black, Charles, 189 Blair, Tony, 338 Blanshard, Brand, 381 Block, Walter, 4, 51–55, 61, 75, 87, 88, 93, 104, 105, 106, 140, 179, 183, 184, 229, 230, 237, 245, 256, 267, 268, 297, 314, 325, 357, 358, 360, 373, 398 Bluestone, Barry, 313 Blum, Leon, 195 Blumert, Burton S., 49, 50, 55–58, 300 Blundell, Christine and John, 174, 193, 336 Boaz, David, 10, 62, 96, 173, 287, 378 Boettke, Peter, 58–66, 82, 95, 230 Böhm Bawark, Eugen Ritter <strong>von</strong>, 31, 61, 68, 242, 243, 279, 283, 284, 312 Böhm, Rudolf, 369, 370 Bond, Jim, 192 Bonds, Bill, 98 Borchard, Edwin C., 189 Borcherding, Tom, 137 Bork, Robert, 342 Bostaph, Sam, 66–70 Bouckaert, Boudewijn, 368, 369, 370 Boudreaux, Don, 63, 65, 82, 157 Bouillon, Hardy, 70–73 Boukaert, Baudoin, 121 Boulding, Kenneth, 63 Bourne, Randolph, 331 Bova, Gail, 250 Bowman, Ward, 112 Bradford, Bill, 127, 268 Branden, Barbara, 46, 52, 167 Branden, Nathaniel, 45, 46, 47, 52, 68, 143, 190, 218, 219, 383, 385 Brando, Marlon, 72 Branwell,Baron, 111 Bray, Karl, 47, 48 Brecher, Steve, 222 Breit, William, 15, 16, 122 Brennan, Geoffrey, 80 Brewster, Kingman, 189 Brinton, Crane, 195 Brittan, Samuel, 20 Bronowski, Jacob, 60 Brøns-Petersen, Otto, 178, 179, 180 Brown, Grant, 236 Brown, Hermione, 112 Brown, Lou, 112 Browne, Harry, 92, 106, 204, 211, 242, 244, 291, 300 Buchanan, James, 16, 20, 35, 63, 65, 95, 103, 137, 156, 157, 191, 195, 253, 255, 350, 361 Buchanan, Pat, 300, 302, 303, 311, 358 Buckley, James (Jim) L., 89 Buckley, William F. (Jr.), 145, 152, 216, 231, 289, 341, 342, 357, 358 Burke, Edmund, 98, 330, 341, 392, 394 Burnham, James, 98 Burris, W. Alan, 325 Bush, George H. W., 100, 302 Butos, William, 65 C Cachanosky, Juan, 398 Caldwell, Bruce, 63 Calewaert, Willy, 367, 368, 369 Cantillon, Richard, 187 Capaldi, Nicholas, 390 Caplan, Bryan, 65, 73–82, 349 Cara, Norberto, 84 Carlson, Allan, 301 Carnap, Rudolf, 86 Carol, Art, 54 Carosso, Vincent, 327 Carrol, Tom, 126 Carter, James Earl “Jimmy,” Jr., 3, 99, 195, 248, 347 Centri, Jean Pierre, 120
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