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- Title
The Fair Value of Economic Liberty.
- Authors
Layman, Daniel
- Abstract
In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi tries to show that 'thick' economic liberties, including the right to own productive property, are basic liberties. According to Tomasi, the policy-level consequences of protecting economic liberty as basic are essentially libertarian in character. I argue that if economic liberties are basic, just societies must guarantee their fair value to all citizens. And in order to secure the fair value of economic liberty, states must guarantee that citizens of roughly similar dispositions and talents are roughly equally able to use their economic liberties to develop and pursue a conception of the good. This, I will argue, is a very demanding standard that requires aggressive taxation and redistribution.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC liberty; FREE enterprise laws; LIBERTARIANISM; FREE Market Fairness (Book); TOMASI, John; MARKET ideology; POLITICAL doctrines
- Publication
Res Publica (13564765), 2015, Vol 21, Issue 4, p413
- ISSN
1356-4765
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11158-015-9301-2