{"product_id":"the-man-versus-the-state-with-six-essays-on-government-society-and-freedom-9780913966983","title":"The Man Versus the State: With Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Herbert Spencer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Liberty Fund\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpencer develops various specific disastrous ramifications of the wholesale substitution of the principle of compulsory cooperation--the statist principle--for the individualist principle of voluntary cooperation. His theme is that \"there is in society . . . that beautiful self-adjusting principle which will keep all its elements in equilibrium. . . . The attempt to regulate all the actions of a community by legislation will entail little else but misery and compulsion.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHerbert Spencer\u003c\/strong\u003e joined the staff of the London and Birmingham Railway as an engineer in 1837 and in 1848 took a position as editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46290379440279,"sku":"9780913966983","price":1169.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780913966983.webp?v=1767701355","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-man-versus-the-state-with-six-essays-on-government-society-and-freedom-9780913966983","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}