Gavin Kerr

The Property-Owning Democracy

Freedom and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on ideas and arguments identifiable within the tradition of 'left-libertarianism', this book develops market democratic interpretations of the ideas of predistribution and the property-owning democracy, and presents a powerful case for an institutional reform which constitutes a genuinely progressive alternative to more familiar social democratic institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138245068
• ISBN-10: 1138245062
• Artikelnr.: 48575638

Autorenporträt

Gavin Kerr is a researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of the fields of politics, philosophy, and economics. His work focuses in particular on the relationship between the classical and social liberal traditions, and on the ideas of market democracy and the property-owning democracy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Three Traditions of Liberal Political Thought
1. Classical Liberalism and the Idea of Market Freedom
2. Social Liberalism, the Idea of Social Freedom, and the Marginalization
of Market Freedom
3. Geo-Classical Liberalism and the Unorthodox Conception of Market Freedom
4. Justice as Fairness and the Priority of Substantive Opportunity
5. Liberal Socialism and the Right to Private Property
6. The Market Democratic Property-Owning Democracy
Conclusion: The Market Democratic Property-Owning Democracy: A Radical Yet
Modest Proposal Whose Time Has (Almost) Come