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Record Nr.

UNINA9910409677403321

Autore

Melkevik Åsbjørn

Titolo

If You’re a Classical Liberal, How Come You’re Also an Egalitarian? : A Theory of Rule Egalitarianism / / by Åsbjørn Melkevik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030379087

3030379086

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism, , 2662-6489

Disciplina

320.51

338.9

Soggetti

Social choice

Welfare economics

Economic policy

Political science

Political science - Philosophy

Social Choice and Welfare

Economic Policy

Political Theory

Political Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Four Concepts of Rules: A Theory of Rule Egalitarianism -- Chapter 2. Can I Have Four Strikes? On Pareto Superiority and Social Justice -- Chapter 3. No Malibu Surfer Left Behind: Three Tales About Coercion -- Chapter 4. The Fictitious Liberal Divide: Economic Rights Are Not Basic -- Chapter 5. No Progressive Taxation Without Discrimination? -- Chapter 6. A Tax Dead on Arrival: Inheritance and Social Mobility -- Chapter 7. Toward a Model of Default Fairness: On Bargaining Power -- Chapter 8. Starve All the Lawyers: Four Theories of the Just Price -- Chapter 9. The Rule Egalitarian Project.

Sommario/riassunto

Classical liberalism has wrongly been regarded as an ideology that rejects the welfare state. In this book, Åsbjørn Melkevik corrects this



common reading of the classical liberal tradition by introducing a theory of “rule egalitarianism”. Not only is classical liberalism compatible with social justice, but it can also help us understand why some egalitarian endeavours are an essential feature of a market society. If a necessary link exists between the classical liberal tradition and the moral and institutional dimensions of the rule of law, then this tradition is bound to uphold a substantial form of social justice. Coherence requires that classical liberals like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman adopt an authentic egalitarian program. They should ameliorate poverty and limit inequality not merely out of prudence or collective self-interest, but for the natural justice of ongoing social cooperation as well as for the impartiality of market institutions.