Liberty and Equality in Political Economy is an evolutionary account of the ongoing debate between two narratives: Locke and liberty versus Rousseau and equality. Within this book, Nicholas Capaldi and Gordon Lloyd view these authors and their texts as parts of a conversation, therefore...

This book analyses the egalitarian foundations of equality law from a classical liberal perspective by asking two central questions: does justice ideally demand equality? Are differences in abilities among people in some sense unfair? The book examines these questions in the context of racial...

1. John Locke and the Three Pillars of Liberty -- 2. Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Three Pillars of Equality -- 3. Adam Smith and the system of natural liberty -- 4. The arrival of the liberty narrative in America -- 5. The French revolution and the socialist alternative -- 6. The evolution of...