John Tomasi’s Free Market Synthesitis

Filed Under: Difference Principle, Economic Liberties, Free Market Fairness, John Rawls, John Tomasi, Property Rights, Social Justice

John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness[1] has the intellectual ambition of formulating a synthesis – at least a tentative synthesis — of key elements of libertarian or classical liberal thought on the one hand and social democrat thought on the other …

Jul 27, 2012

John Tomasi Rearranges the Deck Chairs on the Good Ship Liberalism

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Filed Under: and LIberty, Bleeding Heart Libertarianism, Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi, Law, Legislation, Liberalism, Social Justice

The number of contradictory positions associated with the words “liberal” and “liberalism” have led some to conclude that such expressions are now so unstable in their meaning that they lack sufficient descriptive power of any lasting significance. Of course, the …