Free Market Fairness
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.12 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691158142 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Free market fairness is also a distinctively American ideal. It extends the notion, prominent in America's founding period, that protection of property and promotion of real opportunity are indivisible goals. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. Unlike traditional libertarians, Tomasi argues that property rights are best defended not in terms of self-ownership or economic efficiency but as requirements of democratic legitimacy. Provocative and vigorously argued, Free Market Fairness offers a bold new way of thinking about politics, economics, and justice--one that will challenge readers on both the left and right.. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. At the same time, he encourages egalitarians concerned about social justice to listen more sympathetically to the claims ordinary citizens make about the importance of private economic liberty in their daily lives. Tomasi argues that free market fairness, with its twin commitment to economic liberty and a fair distribution of goods and opportunities, is a morally superior account of libera
(Robert Herritt Policy Review)Free Market Fairness is both an excellent book and an important one. It is an invitation well worth accepting, especially in an election year. (Ryan T. (Adam Wolfson Wall Street Journal)An extremely interesting and important project. (Daniel Ben-Ami Spiked Review of Books)Brilliant. Free Market Fairness's aim is to question opposed modes of thought and find a way between them. (Ethics)Tomasi is a useful corrective to both Rawls and Hayek. Anderson Weekly Standard)Tomasi takes a significant step beyond classical and some types of social democratic liberalism in an attempt to find common ground. He is a supporter of both free-market capitalism and of
Bridging Rawls and Hayek Ira E. Stoll This is a work of political philosophy that attempts to bridge the divide between what the author defines as the "classical liberalism" of F.A. Hayek, Richard Epstein, Adam Smith, and Milton Friedman with the "high liberalism" of John Rawls. First the author briefly describes the two camps, the main difference being that "classical liberalism" includes a robust set of economic freedoms as among . Samuel J. Sharp said A Challenging Book of Some Philosophical Importance. In "Free Market Fairness" Tomasi discusses two opposing philosophical camps, high liberals and classical liberals/libertarians, and seeks to formulate a political philosophy that honors the social justice commitments of one camp with the economic methods of the other. Readers will differ over whether Tomasi has done this successfully, but his arguments are at least thoughtful and informative. By. Rawlsian Libertarianism When Tomasi’s book first came in 2012, it got a lot of attention in libertarian circles. He challenged a lot of preconceived notions about libertarianism, fairness, and justice. Tomasi sets out in this book to create a kind of hybrid between the commitments typically associated with libertarians (and/or classical liberalism, market liberalism, etc.) and the commitments normally tied to wha
He has held visiting fellowships and positions at Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford universities, and at the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona. He is the author of "Liberalism Beyond Justice" (Princeton). . Tomasi holds degrees in political philosophy from the University of Oxford and the University of Arizona. John Tomasi is professor of political science at Brown University, where he is also the founder and director of Brown's