9780521428736: Economic Rights

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This book by internationally renowned academics provides a fresh look at assumptions that are sometimes overlooked in debates about capitalism, socialism and the welfare state.

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Descrizione del libro

Economic rights - rights to use, possess, exchange, and otherwise dispose of property - are at the centre of some of the most important and fundamental disputes in Western moral and political theory. This book by internationally renowned academic lawyers, economists, and philosophers provides a fresh look at assumptions that are sometimes overlooked in debates about capitalism, socialism and the welfare state.

Contenuti

Equality and exploitation in the market socialist community; Democracy and economic rights; The function of several property and freedom of contract; When Jack and Jill make a deal; The limits of creditors' rights; Some causes and consequences of the bifurcated treatment of economic rights and 'other' rights under the US constitution; Gauthier on rights and economic rent; Property rights in persons; The right to an adequate standard of living: justice, autonomy and the state; Disability and the right to work; Providing equal educational opportunity: public versus voucher systems.

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