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Edward W. Younkins

 

In addition to earning state and national honors for his performances on the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA) exams, respectively, Dr. Younkins also received the Outstanding Educator Award for 1997 from the West Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. The author of numerous articles in accounting and business journals, his free-market-oriented articles and reviews have appeared in Ideas on Liberty (formerly The Freeman), The Journal of Markets and Morality, The Social Critic, Le Québécois Libre, Liberty Free Press, The Free Radical, Free Life, The Individual, and many other publications. He recently edited a collection of Michael Novak’s articles and essays entitled Three in One: Essays on Democratic Capitalism, 1976-2000.

 

Get Dr. Younkins' Flourishing and Happiness in a Free Society soon online.
 
 

“Younkins's book should be read not just as an abstract academic treatise, but as a way of motivating improvements – incremental ones where necessary, radical ones where possible – in every aspect of theoretical and practical human endeavor.”
–Gennady Stolyarov II (QLno 286 – February 15, 2011).

Read the preface...

 

Get Dr. Younkins' Champions of a Free Society: Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists on Lexington Books, on Amazon.ca and on Amazon.com.
 
 

Champions of a Free Society is a tour de force of the libertarian and classical liberal movements. Dig into any of these chapters, better yet, all of them, and see a masterfully told story of the history of liberty from days gone by to the modern era.”
–Walter Block of Loyola University, New Orleans.

 

Get Dr. Younkins' Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion on Ashgate Publishing Company, on Amazon.ca and on Amazon.com.
 
 

"A collection of this type is long overdue. Edward Younkins has exhibited an impressive vision in assembling this extraordinary book just in time for the 50th anniversary of Ayn Rand's masterpiece."
–Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

"Re-Reading Atlas Shrugged" A review by J. H. Huebert

 

Get Dr. Younkins' book entitled
Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand and Beyond.

Advance Praise

 
 

 

REVIEWS OF CAPITALISM AND COMMERCE

Capitalism and Commerce
(by Steven Yates, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 7, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 1-13).
Capitalism And Commerce: Conceptual Foundations Of Free Enterprise - A Book That Should Be On Every Free Market Advocate's Shelf
(by Patrick Q. Scheper, Sense of Life Objectivists, December 24, 2004)
Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise
(by Tibor R. Machan, The Freeman, March  2004)
Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise
(by Kyle Swan, Markets & Morality, Fall 2003)
Younkins' book offers timely, important defense of capitalism
(by Thomas Michaud, The State Journal, December 13, 2002)
A Moral and Rational Defense of Capitalism
(by Charles W. Almond, le QL, October 26, 2002)
Foundations of a Free Economy
(by Martin Masse, Mises.org, September 3, 2002)
Adam Smith's virtues revived
(by William H. Peterson, The Washington Times, August 25, 2002)
The Moral Case for Capitalism - A much-needed defense
(by Yuval Levin, National Review Online, August 22, 2002)
 

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