Republic of equals : predistribution and property-owning democracy /

This first book length study of property-owning democracy argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens uniquely meets the demands of justice. It defends a renovated form of capitalism in which the free market is no longer a threat to social democratic values, but...

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Main Author: Thomas, Alan, 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Series:Oxford political philosophy.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Republic ofEquals; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Introduction; 1. Rawls, Republicanism, and Liberal-​Republicanism; (i) Why Liberal-​Republicanism?; (ii) Roman Republicanism; (iii) Liberalism and Republicanism:Complementary or Rivalrous?; (iv) Two Kinds of "Predistribution"; 2. Justice, Pareto, and Equality; (i) Rawls's Theory of Justice; (ii) Are Rawls's Views Indeterminate?; (iii) The Paretian Interpretation; (iv) Rawls and Classical Liberalism; (v) Difference Principles; (vi) Why Fetishize the Interests of the Worst Off?
  • (Vii) The Extrinsic Badness of Inequality(viii) Inequality and the Fracturing of Solidarity; (ix) Paretianism and Problems of Transitional Justice; 3. G. A.Cohen's Neo-​Marxist Critique of Rawls; (i) Cohen's Critique of Rawls; (ii) Is Rawlsian Justice Limited in its Scope?; (iii) The Rejection of Moral Dualism; (iv) Social Relations and Market Relations:AHolistic View; (v) Property-​owning Democracy Undercuts Cohen's Critique; 4. Liberal-​Republicanism and the Basic Liberties; (i) Property-​owning Democracy and the Equal Basic Liberties; (ii) The Failure of the Fair Value Proviso
  • (Iii) Roman Republicanism and the Basic Liberties(iv) Property-​owning Democracy and Fair Equality of Opportunity; 5. Three Forms of Republican Egalitarianism; (i) Juridical Republicanism; (ii) Demogrants as a Catalytic Change; (iii) Constitutionalizing a Background for Justice; (iv) Is the Difference Principle Redundant?; 6. A Liberal-​Republican Economic System; (i) Why Capital?; (ii) Property-​owning Democracy:AShort History of an Ideal; (iii) A "New Keynesian" Framework:Beyond the Welfare State; (iv) From Meade to Rawls; (v) Predistribution and the New Inequality
  • 7. Rawls's Critique of Welfare-​State Capitalism(i) Non-​domination and the Critique of Welfare-​State Capitalism; (ii) Is Rawls's Methodology Flawed?; (iii) A Faulty "Highest Common Factor" Argument; (iv) Welfare and Reciprocity; (v) Three Conceptions of the Social Minimum; 8. Property-​owning Democracy Versus Market Socialism; (i) Market Socialism in its Mandatory Form; (ii) Why Mandatory Market Socialism Must Be Exploitative; (iii) Coupon "Socialism" as a Property-​owning Democracy; (iv) Capital Diffusion as a Realistic Utopia; 9. Toward a Pluralistic Commonwealth
  • (I) From Associative Democracy to Workplace Democracy(ii) Neo-​Corporatism, Democratic Control, and Non-​domination; (iii) A Role for Civil Society; (iv) Toward a Pluralistic Commonwealth; 10. Classical Liberalism and Property-​owning Democracy; (i) The Market Democratic Research Program; (ii) The Perfectionist Basis of Market Democracy; (iii) Rawls Versus Tomasi on Thick and Thin Economic Liberty; (iv) Free Market Fairness Versus Property-​owning Democracy; (v) Tomasi's Unrealistic Utopianism; 11. A Realistic Utopianism?; (i) "Ideal Theory" and "Realistic Utopianism"