Invention of Market Freedom

Informationen zum Autor Eric MacGilvray is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. He is the author of Reconstructing Public Reason and of articles in a number of leading journals. Klappentext Addresses how the classical republican conception of freedom was challenged and finally overcome by the rise of modern market societies. Zusammenfassung Why did the idea of market freedom hold so little appeal before the modern period and how can we explain its rise to dominance? The Invention of Market Freedom sets out to answer these questions by contrasting market freedom with the republican view that it displaced. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Republicanism and the market; 2. Republican freedom; 3. Liberalism before liberty; 4. The rise of commerce; 5. The market synthesis; 6. Republicanism in eclipse; 7. Markets and the new republicanism.

Product details

• Authors: Eric MacGilvray, Eric (Ohio State University) Macgilvray
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2011
• EAN: 9781107001367
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00136-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic systems and structures, Political science and theory