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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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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