Neoliberal social justice : Rawls unveiled /
This timely and provocative book challenges the conventional wisdom that neoliberal capitalism is incompatible with social justice. Employing public choice and market process theory, Nick Cowen systematically compares and contrasts capitalism with socialist alternatives, illustrating how proponents...
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA :
Edward Elgar,
[2021]
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| Series: | New thinking in political economy.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Part I: Why institutions matter in ideal theory: 2. Ideal theory and the basic structure
- 3. Knowledge, not incentives
- Part II: Distributive justice and the knowledge problem: 4. Rawls' neoclassical economics
- 5. The burdens of knowledge
- 6. Why capitalism
- 7. Why not market socialism
- 8. Why not economic democracy
- Part III: Distributive justice and the incentive problem: 9. Fairness failure
- 10. The constitutional point of view
- 11. The robust case for behavioural symmetry
- Part IV: Distributive justice and economic liberty: 12. Basic economic liberties and the moral powers
- 13. The subjective and objective conditions of the circumstances of justice
- 14. Developing moral capacities
- Part V: Robust property-owning democracy: 15. Defining property-owning democracy
- 16. The robustness critique of property-owning democracy
- 17. The case for a robust property-owning democracy
- 18. Conclusion
- Index.