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The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism : Democratic Problems, Market Solutions and the Ethics of Preference Satisfaction / / by Filipe Nobre Faria



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Autore: Faria Filipe Nobre Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism : Democratic Problems, Market Solutions and the Ethics of Preference Satisfaction / / by Filipe Nobre Faria Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
Edizione: 1st ed. 2019.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages)
Disciplina: 320.51
Soggetto topico: Evolutionary economics
Institutional economics
Political science - Philosophy
Political science
Economic policy
Capital market
Institutional and Evolutionary Economics
Political Philosophy
Political Theory
Economic Policy
Capital Markets
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. From Public Choice to Evolutionary Theory -- 3. Public Choice Theory: Liberal Democracy’s Shortcomings and Their Institutional Market Enhancing Solutions -- 4. The Evolutionary Framework: Multilevel Selection, Morality and Preferences -- 5. Reassessing Liberal Democracy’s Shortcomings and Their Institutional Market Enhancing Solutions -- 6. The Market: Evolutionary Limits and Possibilities -- 7. Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: This book assesses the evolutionary sustainability of liberalism. The book’s central claim is that liberal institutions ultimately weaken their social groups in the evolutionary process of inter-group competition. In this sense, institutions relying on the liberal satisfaction of preferences reveal maladaptive tendencies. Based on the model of multilevel selection, this work appraises the capacity of liberal democracy and free markets to satisfy preferences. In particular, the book re-evaluates public choice theory’s classic postulate that free markets are a suitable alternative to the shortcomings of western liberal democracies regarding preference satisfaction. Yet, the book concludes that free markets are not a solution to the problems of liberal democracy because both market and democratic liberal institutions rest on the liberal satisfaction of preferences, an ethic which hurts group evolutionary fitness. This volume is of interest to political theorists, evolutionary ethicists, political economists and to general readers interested in the future of liberalism.
Titolo autorizzato: The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-030-31496-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism, . 2662-6489