Tomasi Free Market Fairness

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4239-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

John Tomasi is professor of political science at Brown University, where he is also the founder and director of Brown's Political Theory Project. Tomasi holds degrees in political philosophy from the University of Oxford and the University of Arizona. He has held visiting fellowships and positions at Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford universities, and at the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Liberalism Beyond Justice (Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomasi, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1: Classical Liberalism 1

Property and Equality 1

Market Society 6

America 11

Hayek 16

Classical Liberalism 22

Chapter 2: High Liberalism 27

Property or Equality 27

The Decline of Economic Liberty 32

Rawls 37

The Libertarian Moment 46

Liberalismus Sapiens Sapiens 51

Chapter 3: Thinking the Unthinkable 57

The Great Fact: Economic Growth 57

Populism, Probability, and Political Philosophy 60

Economic Liberty and Democratic Legitimacy 68

Endings, and Beginnings, Too 84

Chapter 4: Market Democracy 87

The Conceptual Space 87

Breaking Ice 99

Market Democracy as a Research Program 103

Institutions 106

The Challenges to Market Democracy 118

Chapter 5: Social Justicitis 123

The Distributional Adequacy Condition 123

Hit Parade: Property and the Poor 127

Hayek’s Critique 142

Benadryl for Free-Marketeers

151

Chapter 6: Two Concepts of Fairness 162

Warming up to Market Democracy 162

Applying the Theory 172

The Argument Ipse Dixit 177

Justice as Fairness: Status or Agency? 180

Chapter 7: Feasibility, Normativity, and Institutional Guarantees 197

The Twilight of Left Liberalism? 197

Realistic Utopianism 203

Aims and Guarantees 215

Chapter 8: Free Market Fairness 226

The Difference Principle 226

Fair Equality of Opportunity 237

Political Liberty 247

Generational, Environmental, and International Justice 254

Free Market Fairness as a Moral Ideal 264

Conclusion 267

Notes 273

Bibliography 315

Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

John Tomasi is professor of political science at Brown University, where he is also the founder and director of Brown's Political Theory Project. Tomasi holds degrees in political philosophy from the University of Oxford and the University of Arizona. He has held visiting fellowships and positions at Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford universities, and at the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Liberalism Beyond Justice (Princeton).