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Freedom, Equality and the Market - Arguments on Social Policy (Paperback)
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Freedom, Equality and the Market - Arguments on Social Policy (Paperback)
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This new textbook for students of social theory considers the role
of public intervention in social and economic processes. It is a
clear, critical discussion of different theoretical and political
perspectives on social policy. Barry Hindess begins with the
'consensus' view, shared by senior politicians, civil servants, and
academics throughout much of the postwar period. This view depends
on two beliefs: in the capacity of government to manage the
economy; and in the development of a qualitatively new relationship
between the state and the population. The first is discussed in
relation to Crosland's The Future of Socialism, and the second in
relation to Marshall's conception of citizenship and Titmuss's
account of social policy. The consensus view generated serious
objections, and Hindess examines two in particular. One is the
argument that the view itself causes a destructive, competitive
struggle between sectional interests for state intervention in
their favour. The other, from the left, is that what Tawney called
'the strategy of equality' has failed, and that a more radical
attack on inequality is required. The remaining section looks at
the Marxist and liberal alternatives to the consensus view. In
conclusion, the author discusses firstly the essentialism of the
market both in consensus and (in very different ways) in liberal
and Marxist thought; and secondly the place of principles such as
freedom and equality in political discussion and the analysis of
social conditions. He shows that market and plan are not
necessarily incompatible. Freedom, Equality, and the Market, with
its careful assessment of the key texts, will be important reading
for undergraduate students of sociology and social policy.
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