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Freedom and Happiness in Economic Thought and Philosophy - From Clash to Reconciliation (Hardcover)
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Freedom and Happiness in Economic Thought and Philosophy - From Clash to Reconciliation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Starting from a distinction made by the American philosopher, John
Rawls, in 2000 between two kinds of liberalism, "liberalism of
freedom" and "liberalism of happiness," this book presents a range
of articles by economists and philosophers debating the most
fundamental aspects of the subject. These include the exact
significance of Rawls' distinction and how it can be related to
European political philosophy on the one hand and to utilitarianism
on the other hand; the various definitions of happiness and freedom
and their implications and the informational basis of individual
preferences. The objectives of the book are twofold: first, it is
devoted to a thorough analysis of the founding texts of both
liberalisms. It aims to determine the logic of selection of the
concepts which these traditions consider as relevant. The Kantian
pair "Reasonable"/"Rational" can be seen as the basis on which
these concepts are defined, our final concern being to reveal the
profound relations of complementarity between them: we call it
reconciliation. Secondly, we consider a fundamental issue of
welfare economics -- how to appraise individual preferences -- in
light of the Rawlsian distinction. It is emphasized that neither a
criterion based on liberalism of freedom by itself, nor an
evaluation in terms of liberalism of happiness by itself exhausts
the question of utility. One must combine both aspects in order to
cope with that issue. To do so, it is claimed that one can resort
to the concept of metaranking of preferences. All the contributions
included in this book are the outcomes of a collective research
project of three years. The contributors come from a variety of
backgrounds and yet are unified in developing a specific position
about freedom and happiness. This book should be of interest to
those focusing on the history of economic thought as well as moral,
political and economic philosophy.
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