Problems of Market Liberalism: Volume 15, Social Philosophy and Policy, Part 2

ISBN-13: 9780521649919 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 472 str.

Ellen Frankel Paul; Jr. Fred Dycus Miller; Jeffrey Paul

Opis

The essays in this volume assess the strength and impact of market liberal or libertarian political theory, which, broadly conceived, advocates a more carefully circumscribed role for the state and a greater reliance on the ability of individuals and voluntary, private-sector institutions to confront social problems. They 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.

Spis treści

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.