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 … indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs. In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points …

requirements of a well-functioning society, one whose members reap the gains from peaceful cooperation while pursuing their own …1. Ethics and economics -- 2. Some fundamentals -- 3. Origins of ethics -- 4. The case for indirect utilitarianism -- 5 …. What counts as utility? -- 6. The alleged problem of aggregation -- 7. Is utilitarianism immoral? -- 8. Altruism and self …

utilitarianism to liberal thinking on taxation. As such, this unique book will appeal to specialists in the history of economic …

-making Processes: The Relevance of Motivation / Philip Jones -- 7. Positive Constraints on Normative Political Theory / Geoffrey … for Fairness in Taxation: Lessons from the Italian School of Public Finance / Luisa Giuriato -- 11. Cooperation …

the teaching of economics. It includes state-of-the-art moral theory alongside traditional approaches to emphasise why …

Austrian theory of the market process to challenge the premises and uses of mainstream neoclassical economics … standard -- 6. Classical liberalism and collectivism in the 20th century -- 7. The political myths and economic realities of … liberalism : past, present and future …

The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author … argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, go …. Using an evolutionary perspective on economic liberalism, the book develops new arguments about how economic liberalism can …

Nobel Laureate James Buchanan collects in this volume original and recent hard-to-find essays exploring liberalism and … conservatism as distinct ways of looking at and thinking about the realm of human interaction. Classical liberalism is presented … here as a coherent political and economic position, as distinguished from both modern liberalism and conservatism …

1. Introduction -- 2. Ruin and reform : the crisis of German economic liberalism -- 3. Economics and the economist -- 4 …. Toward a new economic liberalism -- 5. Booms, recessions and business cycles -- 6. After Keynes : full employment, inflation …

, provide a robust defence of the concept of classical liberalism in modern 'civil' society. In the first essay, Douglas … Rasmussen and Douglas Uyl discuss the basic approaches and principles of liberalism in the post-modern age and show how a moral … philosophy can serve to support a political philosophy. They supply a clear, fundamental defence of liberalism in an era which …