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This book contains a variety of essays aimed at developing a philosophical defense of public goods against neo-liberal criticisms. Looking at concepts such as collective action, common property, intellectual property and issues such as health, education, welfare, environment, media, cities, and the prison industrial complex.
List of contents
Editors’ Introduction -- Why Public Goods? -- Public Goods as Commonstock: Notes on the Receding Commons -- Surviving with Dignity in a Global Economy: The Battle for Public Goods -- Rationality, Solidarity, and Public Goods -- Equality and Justice -- Women, Care, and the Public Good: A Dialogue -- Difference as a Resource for Democratic Communication -- The Prisoner Exchange: The Underside of Civil Rights -- Human Rights Versus Classical Liberalism: A Study in the Theory of Value -- Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes -- Environment and Welfare -- What Are the State Functions that Neoliberalism Wants to Eliminate? -- Public Goods, Future Generations, and Environmental Quality -- Family Assistance and the Public Good -- Reconstructing Cities, Restoring the Environment: New Urbanism Versus Mobile/Agile Capital -- Education and Public Expression -- Education as a Public Good -- Voting, Democratic Political Action, and the Public Good -- Language as a Public Good Under Threat: The Private Ownership of Brand Names -- Communication as a Public Good -- Higher Education as a Public Good -- Health -- Punishment or Public Health: Why the War on Drugs Is a Failure -- A Case for Taking Health Care Out of the Market -- Mental Health: Public or Social Good?
Summary
This book contains a variety of essays aimed at developing a philosophical defense of public goods against neo-liberal criticisms. Looking at concepts such as collective action, common property, intellectual property and issues such as health, education, welfare, environment, media, cities, and the prison industrial complex.
