Overview
- Highlights the economics of privacy and the costs that are subject to individual choice
- Explores current issues like surveillance, cryptography and financial privacy
- Presents economic and philosophical arguments in a careful and accessible manner
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Economic philosophy
- Classical Liberalism
- Economics of privacy
- Political philosophy
- Technological change
- Market economy
- Value of privacy
- Development of individualism
- Public and private
- Psychology of privacy
- Liberal contractarian model of government
- Violations of privacy
- Reselling data
- Telecommunications and internet surveillance
- Privacy and speech
- Freedom of speech
- Financial privacy
- Blockchain
- New technologies
About this book
How should a free society protect privacy? Dramatic changes in national security law and surveillance, as well as technological changes from social media to smart cities mean that our ideas about privacy and its protection are being challenged like never before. In this interdisciplinary book, Chris Berg explores what classical liberal approaches to privacy can bring to current debates about surveillance, encryption and new financial technologies. Ultimately, he argues that the principles of classical liberalism – the rule of law, individual rights, property and entrepreneurial evolution – can help extend as well as critique contemporary philosophical theories of privacy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Classical Liberal Case for Privacy in a World of Surveillance and Technological Change
Authors: Chris Berg
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96583-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96582-6Published: 02 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07218-6Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96583-3Published: 21 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 222
Topics: Economic Policy, Political Philosophy, Journalism, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, R & D/Technology Policy