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Asbjorn Melkevik - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a tax dead on arrival Classical Liberalism inheritance and social mobility
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2019Co-Authors: Asbjorn MelkevikAbstract:Historically, it is safe to say that very few laws did as much to stoke inequality as laws touching descents and hereditary transmissions. This paper attempts to see if the Classical liberal tradit...
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a tax dead on arrival Classical Liberalism inheritance and social mobility
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Asbjorn MelkevikAbstract:Historically, it is safe to say that very few laws did as much to stoke inequality as laws touching descents and hereditary transmissions. This paper attempts to see if the Classical liberal tradition can endorse inheritance taxation so as to further fair equality of opportunity, as well as to lessen inequality of undeserved wealth. It argues that fair equality of opportunity is a necessary feature of market societies to make sure that they remain competitive. Hence, inheritance taxation is most likely necessary from a Classical liberal point of view as an instrument of social mobility to counter notable problems of social immobility, say hereditary vocational stratification, which a system of private property rights creates.
Gavin Kerr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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neo Classical Liberalism market freedom and the right to private property
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2020Co-Authors: Gavin KerrAbstract:Neo-Classical liberals aim to offer a more consistent, coherent, and morally ambitious form of Liberalism than the traditional Classical and social liberal alternatives by providing grounds for a s...
Ross B Emmett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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review of colander freedman s where economics went wrong chicago s abandonment of Classical Liberalism
Social Science Research Network, 2019Co-Authors: Ross B EmmettAbstract:Colander and Freedman draw a much larger circle around recent criticisms of the economics discipline, arguing that the source of “where economics went wrong” lies in the discipline’s sublimation of the art of economic policy to its scientific counterpart. Whereas Classical liberal blended the science of political economy with the art of policy-making, the methodological assumptions of 20th century economics, especially at Chicago, enshrined the “economist as policy scientist” as the new archetype of a modern policy advisor. The essay reviews their argument and examines four aspects of the history they tell that deserve greater attention than they provide.
Goyenechea Elisa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Thomas Jefferson: Entre el Liberalismo y el republicanismo. La posición de Hannah Arendt
'Universidad Pablo de Olavide', 2021Co-Authors: Goyenechea ElisaAbstract:The paper examines Hannah Arendt’s interpretation of Thomas Jefferson’s political thought. First, we put forward the main arguments that place him within the framework of political Liberalism. In this regard, his writings of the pre-revolutionary period allude to the ancient Saxon constitution and to the natural rights of John Locke. Second, we expose Hannah Arendt’s assessment of the American Revolution as a replica of Classical republicanism, to the detriment of the thesis prevailing until 1960, which places it within the context of Classical Liberalism. We assert that she interprets T. Jefferson as representative of republicanism, highlighting in particular his thesis on the council system.El trabajo examina la interpretación de Hannah Arendt del pensamiento político de Thomas Jefferson. En primer lugar, presentamos los principales argumentos que lo ubican en el marco de las ideas del Liberalismo. Al respecto, en sus escritos del período pre revolucionario Jefferson alude a la antigua constitución sajona y a los derechos naturales de John Locke. En segundo lugar, exponemos la posición de Hannah Arendt respecto de la Revolución americana como réplica del republicanismo clásico, en desmedro de la tesis prevaleciente hasta 1960, que la ubica bajo la égida del Liberalismo clásico. En este contexto, mostramos que la autora interpreta a T. Jefferson como representante del republicanismo, destacando, en particular, su tesis sobre el sistema de consejos
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Thomas Jefferson: between Liberalism and republicanism. The position of Hannah Arendt
'Universidad Pablo de Olavide', 2019Co-Authors: Goyenechea ElisaAbstract:El trabajo examina la interpretación de Hannah Arendt del pensamiento político de Thomas Jefferson. En primer lugar, presentamos los principales argumentos que lo ubican en el marco de las ideas del Liberalismo. Al respecto, en sus escritos del período pre revolucionario Jefferson alude a la antigua constitución sajona y a los derechos naturales de John Locke. En segundo lugar, exponemos la posición de Hannah Arendt respecto de la Revolución americana como réplica del republicanismo clásico, en desmedro de la tesis prevaleciente hasta 1960, que la ubica bajo la égida del Liberalismo clásico. En este contexto, mostramos que la autora interpreta a T. Jefferson como representante del republicanismo, destacando, en particular, su tesis sobre el sistema de consejos.The paper examines Hannah Arendt's interpretation of Thomas Jefferson's political thought. First, we put forward the main arguments that place him within the framework of political Liberalism. In this regard, his writings of the pre-revolutionary period allude to the ancient Saxon constitution and to the natural rights of John Locke. Second, we expose Hannah Arendt's assessment of the American Revolution as a replica of Classical republicanism, to the detriment of the thesis prevailing until 1960, which places it within the context of Classical Liberalism. We assert that she interprets T. Jefferson as representative of republicanism, highlighting in particular his thesis on the council system.Universidad Pablo de Olavid
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Thomas Jefferson: Between Liberalism and republicanism. The position of Hannah Arendt
'Universidad de Huelva - UHU', 2018Co-Authors: Goyenechea ElisaAbstract:El trabajo examina la interpretación de Hannah Arendt del pen-samiento político de Thomas Jefferson. En primer lugar, presentamos los principales argumentos que lo ubican en el marco de las ideas del libera-lismo. Al respecto, en sus escritos del período pre revolucionario Jefferson alude a la antigua constitución sajona y a los derechos naturales de John Locke. En segundo lugar, exponemos la posición de Hannah Arendt respec-to de la Revolución americana como réplica del republicanismo clásico, en desmedro de la tesis prevaleciente hasta 1960, que la ubica bajo la égida del Liberalismo clásico. En este contexto, mostramos que la autora interpre-ta a T. Jefferson como representante del republicanismo, destacando, en particular, su tesis sobre el sistema de consejosThe paper examines Hannah Arendt’s interpretation of Thomas Jefferson’s political thought. First, we put forward the main arguments that place him within the framework of political Liberalism. In this regard, his writings of the pre-revolutionary period allude to the ancient Saxon constitution and to the natural rights of John Locke. Second, we expose Hannah Arendt’s assessment of the American Revolution as a replica of Classical republicanism, to the detriment of the thesis prevailing until 1960, which places it within the context of Classical Liberalism. We assert that she interprets T. Jefferson as representative of republicanism, highlighting in particular his thesis on the council syste
David Ellerman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On the Renting of Persons: The Neo-Abolitionist Case Against Today's Peculiar Institution On the Renting of Persons: The Neo-Abolitionist Case Against Today's Peculiar Institution
2020Co-Authors: David EllermanAbstract:Abstract Liberal thought (in the sense of Classical Liberalism) is based on the juxtaposition of consent to coercion. Autocracy and slavery were seen as based on coercion whereas today's political democracy and economic 'employment system' are based on consent to voluntary contracts. This paper retrieves an almost forgotten dark side of contractarian thought that based autocracy and slavery on explicit or implicit voluntary contracts. To answer these 'best case' arguments for slavery and autocracy, the democratic and abolitionist movements forged arguments not simply in favour of consent, but arguments that voluntary contracts to legally alienate aspects of personhood were invalid 'even with consent' -which made the underlying rights inherently inalienable. Once understood, those arguments have the perhaps 'unintended consequence' of making the neo-abolitionist case for ruling out today's self-rental contract, the employer-employee contract. The paper has to also retrieve these inalienable rights arguments since they have been largely lost on the Left, not to mention in liberal thought
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a theory of inalienability towards a theory of Classical liberal jurisprudence
2018Co-Authors: David EllermanAbstract:Classical Liberalism tends to respond to the criticism of any voluntary market contract by promoting a wider choice of options and increased information and bargaining power so that no one would seem to be ‘forced’ or ‘tricked’ into an ‘unconscionable’ contract. Hence, at first glance, the strict logic of the Classical liberal free market philosophy would seem to mitigate against ever abolishing any mutually voluntary contract between knowledgeable and consenting adults. Yet the modern liberal democratic societies have abolished (i.e., treated as invalid) at least three types of historical contracts: the voluntary slavery contract, the coverture marriage contract, and an undemocratic constitution to establish an autocratic government. Thus, the rights associated with those contracts are considered as inalienable. This paper analyzes these three contracts and shows that there is indeed a deeper Classical liberal tradition of jurisprudence that rules out those contracts. The ‘problem’ is that the same principles imply the abolition of the employment contract — which is the foundation for the economic system that is often (but superficially) identified with Classical Liberalism itself.