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- Title
Dream Capitalism.
- Authors
Pierson, Chris
- Abstract
In my reading of Free Market Fairness (), I challenge Tomasi's key assumption that that we can and should pursue the account of social justice laid down in its essentials by John Rawls, but with this one crucial change, that the 'economic liberties' which Rawls excludes from his framework of basic liberties should be included on that list and be appropriately prioritized and protected. I argue that Rawls had very good grounds for excluding the right to own productive capital from his list of basic rights; in short, that such a move would not enhance justice as fairness. Tomasi's embrace of American capitalism as an approximation of what entrenched economic liberties can be expected to deliver simply makes an incredible claim less plausible.
- Subjects
FREE enterprise laws; ECONOMIC liberty; LIBERTARIANISM; MARKET ideology; POLITICAL doctrines; FREE Market Fairness (Book); TOMASI, John
- Publication
Res Publica (13564765), 2015, Vol 21, Issue 4, p383
- ISSN
1356-4765
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11158-015-9299-5