Overview
- Offers a critique of contemporary capitalism
- Identifies economic institutions of isocracy according to a perspective of gradual change from the capitalist mode of production
- Illustrates the political institutions of isocracy through five contemporaries practices
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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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.
Nicolò 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.
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Book Title: Isocracy
Book Subtitle: The Institutions of Equality
Authors: Nicolò Bellanca
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00695-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00694-5Published: 11 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00695-2Published: 30 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 204
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Political Philosophy, Economic Policy, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Law and Economics