Problems of Market Liberalism Social Philosophy and Policy: Volume 15 - Policy, Part

Zusammenfassung The essays in this collection offer insights into the limits of government! develop market-oriented solutions to pressing social problems! and explore some defects in traditional libertarian theory and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Why all welfare states (including laissez-faire ones) are unreasonable; 2. Measuring opportunity: toward a contractarian measure of individual interest; 3. Deontic restrictions are not agent-relative restrictions; 4. Why even egalitarians should favor market health insurance; 5. Affirmative action and the demands of justice; 6. The dual role of property rights in protecting broadcast speech; 7. Regulation of foods and drugs and libertarian ideals: perspectives of a fellow-traveler; 8. Profit: the concept and its moral features; 9. Natural property rights: where they fail; 10. Toward a libertarian theory of class; 11. Libertarianism as if (the other 99 percent of) people mattered; 12. On the failure of libertarianism to capture the Popular Imagination; 13. Imitations of libertarian thought.

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• Authors: Ellen Frankel Paul, Ellen Frankel Miller Paul
• Assisted by: Fred Dycus Miller (Editor), Fred Dycus Jr. Miller (Editor), Fred D. Miller Jr (Editor), Ellen Frankel Paul (Editor), Jeffrey Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.1998
• EAN: 9780521649919
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64991-9
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Social Philosophy and Policy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education