June 18, 2015
Liberating Fairness
Of general interest to readers of this blog: over at C4SS, Billy Christmas has a review, from a left-libertarian perspective, of John Tomasi’s book Free Market Fairness.
Posts filed under John Tomasi
December 15, 2014
Does Market Democracy Sanction Class Domination?
Free Market Fairness (FMF) presents a fusionist theory of liberal justice, one affirming both private economic liberty and social justice. I call this market democracy. In a symposium on FMF…
December 12, 2014
Critical Review Symposium on Free Market Fairness
Things have been a little slow here at BHL lately. I imagine things will pick up now that the academic term is drawing to a close. But if you’ve been…
April 07, 2014
“There Is No Such Thing As Ideal Theory”
It’s come up a number of times around here that my approach to questions of normative political theory is not what gets referred to as “ideal theory,” and indeed that…
June 12, 2013
John Rawls: For School Choice, Against the Minimum Wage
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest contribution by Felix Bungay, a student at the University of Cambridge reading an MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought.] When looking at…
December 20, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Unjust, Free-Market Fairness is Not
In my last post, in my series on property-owning democracy (POD), I claimed that it is unjust because POD frustrates the realization of Rawls’s (unmodified) two principles of justice. But…