LEADER 04739nam 22007215 450 001 9910947536703321 005 20250120070733.0 010 $a9783031751035 010 $a3031751035 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-75103-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31876257 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31876257 035 $a(CKB)37188986400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-75103-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937188986400041 100 $a20250111d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIndividual Rights over Economic Equality $eHow Individual Rights and Property Stand in Opposition to Working Conditions and Equality /$fby John F. M. McDermott 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (179 pages) 311 08$a9783031751028 311 08$a3031751027 327 $aIntroduction: John McDermott's Body of Work -- Chapter 1 As Rights Expand Equality Declines -- Chapter 2 Ours is Not a "Liberal Society" -- Chapter 3 Inalienable Rights and the Abortion Wars -- Chapter 4 Elements of a Theory of Social Rights -- Chapter 5 Looking at the Workplace -- Chapter 6 Interregnum -- Chapter 7 Afterword. 330 $aSince the mid-1960s, citizens' rights in the United States have improved across many areas, including race, gender, sexuality, physical disabilities, age, consumption of goods, voting, and more. During this time, there has also been a degradation in economic rights, such as economic inequality. Is there a reason for this contradiction? Is it possible for American citizens to experience rights and equality? At the center of natural rights theories lies the "inalienable" right to private property, and the concepts and practices of the accumulation of private property always defeat personal liberties. Modern political philosophers who espouse natural rights, including liberal John Rawls and conservative James M. Buchanan, share nearly identical premises and goals. The two sides do not often recognize that the free-standing individual at the center of mainstream theorizing in economics and politics simply does not exist. We are social animals, all embedded in (unequal) networks of social and economic relations, requiring very different explanatory frameworks from those given by individual rights theorizing. This book explores the ways in which the foundational ideology of individual rights belies the actualities of economic inequality. It argues that "individual rights" philosophy offers the main ideological basis for the astronomical accumulation of wealth that produces this inequality. Investigating the defects of rights theory, the book examines key concepts related to social progress and economic stability. The resulting text presents and analyzes the networks of contemporary corporate, business, and financial power that structurally and systemically limit the lives and choices of citizens in the United States. John F. M. McDermott (1932-2022) was Professor Emeritus of the State University of New York in Old Westbury, USA. He is the author of several books, including Economics in Real Time (Michigan University Press, 2004) and Employers' Economics versus Employees' Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). With contributions from Steven Colatrella, independent scholar Frances A. Maher, Professor Emerita of Education, Wheaton College Michael Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Western New England University. 606 $aEconomic policy 606 $aSocial policy 606 $aLabor economics 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aEconomics 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aSocio-Economic Policy 606 $aLabor Economics 606 $aEconomic Policy 606 $aPhilosophy of Economics 606 $aPolitical Philosophy 615 0$aEconomic policy. 615 0$aSocial policy. 615 0$aLabor economics. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aEconomics. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aSocio-Economic Policy. 615 24$aLabor Economics. 615 24$aEconomic Policy. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Economics. 615 24$aPolitical Philosophy. 676 $a323.4 700 $aMcDermott$b John F. M$0985818 701 $aColatrella$b Steven$01791964 701 $aMaher$b Frances$01791965 701 $aMeeropol$b Michael$0733877 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910947536703321 996 $aIndividual Rights over Economic Equality$94329808 997 $aUNINA