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Liberalism and Distributive Justice (Hardcover)
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Liberalism and Distributive Justice (Hardcover)
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Samuel Freeman is a leading political philosopher and one of the
foremost authorities on the works of John Rawls. Liberalism and
Distributive Justice offers a series of Freeman's essays in
contemporary political philosophy on three different forms of
liberalism-classical liberalism, libertarianism, and the high
liberal tradition-and their relation to capitalism, the welfare
state, and economic justice. Freeman organizes his chapters into a
narrative arc: from liberalism as the dominant political and
economic system, to the laws governing interpersonal transactions
in a liberal society, to the broad social and political structures
that determine distributive justice. Freeman analyzes the primary
differences between the classical and high liberal traditions and
shows why libertarianism is not a liberal view. He then shows how
Rawls's liberal principles of justice and the difference principle
are to be applied in both ideal and non-ideal circumstances, and
also to questions of private law, and then demonstrates why Rawls's
difference principle supports a property-owning democracy rather
than welfare-state capitalism, effectively responding to criticisms
by Amartya Sen, G.A. Cohen, and others. Finally, he argues for the
social rather than global bases of distributive justice and
explains why principles of distributive justice should apply
primarily to structure basic social and economic institutions. The
volume is highly relevant to contemporary debates about economic
inequality, poverty, and the responsibility of government to
respond to them. In particular, it provides insight into questions
of the fair distribution of income and wealth, the proper role of
government in regulating a market economy, and in providing public
services and a social minimum.
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