The road to freedom economics and the good society
"We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : freedom in danger
- How economists think about freedom
- Part I. Liberty and freedom : basic principles
- One person's freedom is another person's unfreedom
- Freedom through coercion : public goods and the free-rider problem
- Contracts, the social contract, and freedom
- Freedom, a competitive economy, and social justice
- The freedom to exploit
- Part II. Freedom, beliefs, and preferences, and the creation of the good society
- Social coercion and social cohesion
- The concerted shaping of individuals and their beliefs
- Tolerance, social solidarity, and freedom
- Part III. What kind of economy promotes a good, just, and free society?
- Neoliberal capitalism : why it failed
- Freedom, sovereignty, and coercion among states
- Progressive capitalism, social democracy, and a learning society
- Democracy, freedom, social justice, and the good society.
