Edward W. Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University.

Younkins has succeeded in assembling an internally consistent set of propositions which support the ideal of a free society and has shown through careful scholarship how each of these propositions can be derived from one possible interpretation of Aristotle, Ayn Rand or Austrian economics....Younkins’ book is engaging and I will continue to engage with it as I explore the paradox of finding economic and political conclusions.

• Introduction: Aristotle, the Aristotelian Austrians, Ayn Rand, and BeyondChapter 1: Menger, Mises, Rand, and BeyondChapter 2: Human Nature, Flourishing, and HappinessChapter 3: Toward the Development of a Paradigm of Human Flourishing in a Free SocietyConclusion: Creating a Good Life in a Free Society

Edward W. Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University.

Younkins has succeeded in assembling an internally consistent set of propositions which support the ideal of a free society and has shown through careful scholarship how each of these propositions can be derived from one possible interpretation of Aristotle, Ayn Rand or Austrian economics....Younkins’ book is engaging and I will continue to engage with it as I explore the paradox of finding economic and political conclusions.

• Introduction: Aristotle, the Aristotelian Austrians, Ayn Rand, and BeyondChapter 1: Menger, Mises, Rand, and BeyondChapter 2: Human Nature, Flourishing, and HappinessChapter 3: Toward the Development of a Paradigm of Human Flourishing in a Free SocietyConclusion: Creating a Good Life in a Free Society