Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing

Perspectives from Political Philosophy
Herausgeber: Strain, Michael R; Veuger, Stan

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Produktbeschreibung

Is economic liberty necessary for individuals to lead truly flourishing lives? Whether your immediate answer is yes or no, this question is deceptively simple. What do we mean by liberty? What constitutes the flourishing life? How are these related? How is economic liberty related to other goods that affect human flourishing? To answer these questions-and more-this volume brings to bear some of history's greatest thinkers, interpreted by some of today's leading scholars of their thought. How might Aristotle have understood the relationship between economic liberty and human flourishing? Hobbes and Locke, Mill, Rousseau, Burke, Adam Smith, Kant, de Tocqueville, and Marx? So much of the policy and political debates around issues of economic liberty are often cast in somewhat narrow terms. What is the precise magnitude of this elasticity? Is a certain policy popular among key constituencies? Of course, economic and political analysis have a vital role to play in shaping and understanding public policy. But it is helpful-and refreshing-from time to time to step back and examine the foundation. This volume endeavors to do exactly that.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AEI Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780844750019
• ISBN-10: 0844750018
• Artikelnr.: 45996362

Autorenporträt

Michael R. Strain is director of Economic Policy Studies and resident scholar at AEI. Stan A. Veuger is resident scholar at AEI and the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface v Michael R. Strain and Stan A. Veuger Aristotle on
Economics and the Flourishing Life 1 Harvey C. Mansfield Hobbes, Locke, and
the Problems of Political Economy 9 Peter B. Josephson Rousseau on Economic
Liberty and Human Flourishing 30 John T. Scott Adam Smith and Human
Flourishing 46 Ryan Patrick Hanley Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing:
Kant on Society, Citizenship, and Redistributive Justice 58 Susan Meld
Shell Edmund Burke¿s Economics of Flourishing 84 Yuval Levin Capitalism as
a Road to Serfdom? Tocqueville on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing 96
Steven Bilakovics John Stuart Mill on Economic Liberty and Human
Flourishing 108 Richard Boyd Economic Liberty as Anti-Flourishing: Marx and
Especially His Followers 129 Deirdre Nansen McCloskey About the Authors 150