Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 384 pages)
ISBN:
9780300244816
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE. YOU SHOULD BECOMEA HUMANE TRUE LIBERAL -- 1. Modern Liberals Recommend Both Golden Rules, That Is, Adam Smith's Equality of Opportunity -- 2. Liberalism Had a Hard Coming -- 3. Modern Liberals Are Not Conservatives, Nor Statists -- 4. Liberals Are Democrats, and MarketsAre Democratic -- 5. Liberals Detest Coercion -- 6. Liberalism Had Good Outcomes, 1776 to the Present -- 7. Yet After1848 Liberalism Was Weakened -- 8. The "New Liberalism" Was Illiberal -- 9. The Result of the New Illiberalism Was Very Big Governments -- 10. Honest and Competent Governments Are Rare -- 11. Deirdre Became a Modern Liberal Slowly, Slowly -- 12. The Arguments Against Becoming a Liberal Are Weak -- 13. We Can and Should Liberalize -- 14. For Example, Stop "Protection" -- 15. And Stop Digging in Statism -- 16. Poverty Out of Tyranny, Not Capitalist" Inequality, Is the Real Problem -- 17. Humane Liberalism Is Ethical -- PART TWO. HUMANE LIBERALISM ENRICHES PEOPLE -- 18. Liberty and Dignity Explain the Modern World -- 19. China Shows What Economic Liberalism Can Do -- 20. Commercially Tested Betterment Saves the Poor -- 21. Producing and Consuming a Lot Is Not by Itself Unethical -- 22. Trickle Up or Trickle Down Is Not How the Economy Works -- 23. The Liberal Idea, in Short, Made the Modern World -- PART THREE. THE NEW WORRY ABOUT INEQUALITYIS MISTAKEN -- 24. Forced Equality of Outcome Is Unjust and Inhumane -- 25. Piketty Is Mistaken -- 26. Europe Should Resist Egalitarian Policies -- 27. Piketty Deserves Some Praise -- 28. But Pessimism About Market Societies Is Not Scientifically Justified -- 29. The Rich Do Not in a Liberal Society Get Rich at the Expense of the Rest -- 30. Piketty's Book Has Serious Technical Errors -- 31. The Ethical Accounting of Inequality Is Mistaken.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-369) and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300235081
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McCloskey, Deirdre N., 1942 - Why liberalism works New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780300235081
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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Sociology
Keywords:
Liberalismus
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Sozialer Fortschritt
;
Geschichte 1776-
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