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The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune : Prospects for Prosperity in Our Times.

Bringing together philosophical insights with social theory, this book develops a better understanding of the role luck plays in generating and reinforcing inequality. The author offers a political economy of life chances and an analysis of durable and demonstrable social inequalities, revealing how...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: TIMCKE, SCOTT
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2023.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune: Prospects for Prosperity in Our Times -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Why luck? And why now? -- Against strict luck egalitarianism -- Qualified esteem for luck egalitarianism -- For equality-promoting approaches -- The agenda in this book -- 2 The Egalitarian Turn in Liberalism -- The problem of social inequality -- How private property regimes alienate -- Issues of basic-fundamental justice 
505 8 |a Repairing markets -- The arbitrariness of fortune -- 3 Where Liberalism Falls Short -- The end and return of history -- Further critiques of liberal social theory -- Avoiding ontological politics -- Tensions in intersubjective agreement -- Procedures are not enough -- A liberal social imaginary -- Enrolling Marxian methodologies -- 4 The Problem of Contingency -- Williams and contingency -- Extreme epistemic uncertainty -- Fortitude, wisdom, responsibility and self-affirmation -- Fallibility and fragility -- Making do with luck -- 5 Accounting for Uncertain Opportunities 
505 8 |a Moral luck and responsibility -- Equality and fair shots at prospects -- Libertarian objections to equality -- Is the partiality of the rich reasonable? -- The costs of acquired tastes -- Luck neutralization -- 6 A Social Analysis of Institutional Luck -- Matters of production and consumption -- The allocation of risk -- Trust and distrust -- Precarious ways of life -- Institutional luck as power and mystification -- 7 Markets Are Not Morally Neutral -- Inequality, incomes and prices -- Some limitations of Marxism -- Value struggle beyond Marxism -- A reconstructed critique of political economy 
505 8 |a 8 Conclusion: The Tasks of Engaged Liberal Social Theory -- Sources for renewal -- Beyond the initial chances in life -- The capability-priority principle -- Equality-promoting approaches for democratic life -- References -- Index 
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