Isocracy : the institutions of equality
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Isocracy : the institutions of equality
（Palgrave studies in classical liberalism / series editors, David Hardwick, Leslie Marsh）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2019
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Isocrazia : le istituzioni dell' eguaglianza
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Originally published: Castelvecchi Editore, 2016
Translated from the Italian by Maria De Pascale
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In the twentieth century there were two great political and social paradigms, the liberal-democratic and the libertarian (in its various socialist, anarchist, and communist delineations). The central idea of the first approach is isonomy: the exclusion of any discrimination on the basis that legal rights are afforded equally to all people. The central idea of the second approach is rather to acknowledge and address a broader spectrum of known inequalities. Such an approach, Bellanca argues, allows the pursuit of pluralism as well as a more realistic and complex view of what equality is. Here he analyzes the main economic and political institutions of an isocratic society, and in so doing, effectively outlines how a utopian society can be structurally and anthropologically realized.
This book is ideal reading for an audience interested in the critique of contemporary capitalism through a renewed perspective of democratic socialism and leftist libertarianism.
Nicolo Bellanca is Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Florence, Italy. He is the author of a broad array of scholarly articles, books and textbooks about both the history of economic thought and development economics. His current research focuses on the theory of institutional change.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A Good Place to Live.- Chapter 2: The Economic Istitutions of Isocracy.- Chapter 3: The Political Istitutions of Isocracy.- Chapter 4: The Anthropological Mutation.- Chapter 5: The Structural Possibility of an Alternative.
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