Contents: Biographical note on Jan Narveson; Introduction, Malcolm Murray. Part I 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. Part II 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.

Part III 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. Part IV Response: Social contract, game theory and liberty: responding to my critics, Jan Narveson. Bibliography; Index.