Conservative Key Thinkers

Question 1

Robert Nozick - Books

Answer 1

Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974)

Question 2

Robert Nozick - dates

Answer 2

1938-2002

Question 3

Robert Nozick - ideas

Answer 3

Minarchist State - outsourcing public services to private companies
Individual should be left alone in the economic, social and cultural spheres

Question 4

Robert Nozick - quotes

Answer 4

‘tax, for the most part, is theft’

Question 5

Robert Nozick - context

Answer 5

Cold war, Post war consensus, Saw the Dictatorial USSR in comparison to the Libertarian US
New Right Conservatism

Question 6

Ayn Rand - Books

Answer 6

Atlas Shrugged (1957)
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

Question 7

Ayn Rand - ideas

Answer 7

Talented individuals, rather than ambitious governments, lay at the heart of any successful society (though needs parameters of a small state)
Gov. to provide security and order
Objectivism - should all be guided by self interest
atomism
laissez faire capitalism
negative liberty

Question 8

Ayn Rand - dates

Answer 8

1905-82

Question 9

Ayn Rand -quotes

Answer 9

‘rational self-fulfilment’
‘right to choose’

Question 10

Ayn Rand - context

Answer 10

Russian Revolutions (1905,1917)
Cold war