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- Title
Markets, Choice and Agency.
- Authors
Fowler, Timothy
- Abstract
John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness () introduces several powerful arguments in favour of a novel and surprising thesis: the best way to realize Rawls's principles of justice is a free market society, rather than the arrangements that Rawls himself believed would best promote justice. In this paper, I adduce three arguments against Tomasi. First, I suggest that his view rests on a faulty understanding of what constitutes conventional property rights. Second, I argue that many market solutions generate choices which are not valuable ones for the agent to have to make. Third, I show that many choices created by the market systems Tomasi favours create the illusion that citizens are making their own choices when in fact they are not. I suggest that taken together these three arguments are sufficient to defend Rawlsian institutional arrangements against Tomasi's challenge.
- Subjects
FREE enterprise laws; LIBERTARIANISM; FREE Market Fairness (Book); TOMASI, John; MARKET ideology; POLITICAL doctrines
- Publication
Res Publica (13564765), 2015, Vol 21, Issue 4, p347
- ISSN
1356-4765
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11158-015-9297-7