Thursday, March 22, 2012

“The Hunger Games”: The Role of Dystopian Literature in Libertarianism

There is a nice piece on “The Hunger Games”: The Role of Dystopian Literature in Libertarianism by Christine-Marie Dixon over at Students for Liberty.

As the author notes, dystopian novels have played an important role in libertarianism. I suspect they will always have such a role, since it is easy to show the negative outcomes of government actions. Also, stories have to have problems, so we should not be surprised that most "libertarian" literature involved dystopian visions.

What would a pro-market novel that was not dystopian look like?

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