Equality, Rights and the Autonomous Self: Toward a Conservative Economics - Hardcover

Roth, Timothy P.

 
9781843764502: Equality, Rights and the Autonomous Self: Toward a Conservative Economics
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1843764504 ISBN 13: 9781843764502
Verlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self's 'natural rights' against others' moralistic and political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of 'social justice'. Timothy Roth argues that the liberal enterprise ignores Kant's 'two points of view', confuses Kantian autonomy with moral and political license, mistakes utilitarian impersonality for impartiality, and takes no account of the indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs.

In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points of view' inform the conservative's constitutive political position and animate the consequence-detached, explicitly normative work of the conservative, constitutional political economist. He shows that, unlike modern liberalism, conservatism is grounded in Kant's 'two points of view', that utilitarian social welfare theory cannot be instrumental to the achievement of social justice, and that constitutional political economy is conservative economics.

Economists interested in political economy, methodological issues, social welfare theory, public choice theory, or the moral foundations of economics will find much of interest in this thought-provoking volume. Political scientists interested in the philosophical foundations of modern liberalism and conservatism will also want to add this title to their library.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Timothy P. Roth, A.B. Templeton Professor and Chairman, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Texas, El Paso, US

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Verlag
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1843764504
ISBN 13 
9781843764502
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Anzahl der Seiten
176
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