Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System
John McMurtry | | ISBN: 9781565490871 $29.95 |
| 1998/410 pages/LC: 9840415 A Kumarian Press Book |
DESCRIPTION
This is the intelligent citizen's complete guide to the theory and practice of the global market, with clear and direct applicability to everyday life-experiences and emerging controversies and debates. This moral philosopher offers a step-by-step analysis of the global order as an ethical system, employing easy-to-follow arguments and focused analyses that are intelligible and interesting to students, scholars, and anyone attempting to come to grips with the crises of the contemporary world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John McMurtry is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Guelph.
CONTENTS
- Introduction: An Overview.
- BEHIND THE INVISIBLE HAND.
- The Problem: A Question of Freedom.
- The Market as God.
- Market Theory and Practice: Arguments Pro and Con.
- Freedom, Private Property, and Money: From John Locke to the New World Order.
- Private Profit, Competition, and the Social Good.
- The Free Market and Democracy.
- The Market Metaphysic: Rallying Cries and True Meanings.
- PLANETARY HEALTH, THE GLOBAL MARKET, AND THE CIVIL COMMONS.
- The Decoupling of Capital from Civil and Environmental Life.
- The Mutations of the Profit System and Their Cure.
- The Economics of Life and Death.
- Conclusion: The Way Ahead.
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"A brilliant, elegantly written expose."—Harry Glasbeek, Osgood Hall Law School
"Some of the most exhilarating philosophy I have ever read."—G.A. Cohen, All Souls College, Oxford University
"Lays bare the foundations of a new economics.... Bids well to become a classic."—William Krehn, Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform