Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing
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Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing

Perspectives from Political Philosophy

  1. 164 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing

Perspectives from Political Philosophy

About this book

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

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Yes, you can access Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing by Michael R. Strain, Stan Veuger, Michael R. Strain,Stan A. Veuger in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Political Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Aristotle on Economics and the Flourishing Life
  3. Hobbes, Locke, and the Problems of Political Economy
  4. Rousseau on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing
  5. Adam Smith and Human Flourishing
  6. Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing: Kant on Society, Citizenship, and Redistributive Justice
  7. Edmund Burke’s Economics of Flourishing
  8. Capitalism as a Road to Serfdom? Tocqueville on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing
  9. John Stuart Mill on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing
  10. Economic Liberty as Anti-Flourishing: Marx and Especially His Followers
  11. About the Authors