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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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