...David Schmidtz Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell...

...Jon Mandle LIBERALISM, JUSTICE, AND MARKETS: A CRITIQUE OF LIBERAL EQUALITY. By Colin M. Macleod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp.viii, 232. Cornell University 2000 Cohen, G. A. 1989 . “On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice.” Ethics 99 : 906 -944...

..., titled “When the Market Was ‘Left,’” is to explain why the problem of private government has gone underdiagnosed in our time, especially in the United States. We talk as if employees are free at work. Why? The reason, Anderson argues, is that we view our economic system through the lens of an outdated...

... also shows that Rawls shared this view (213–15, 291–8). But these considerations do not exhaust the terrain: Thomas needs to show that a form of universal worker control, what he calls “mandatory market socialism” (220), is also unsatisfactory. The opponent here is any form of socialism that envisages...

... them. The authors pin the popularity of this assumption on an implicit libertarian view of property rights and desert: that individuals with strong natural property rights exercise these rights within a government- free market, creating a presumptively just baseline of entitlements that the state...

... Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. 1. Serena Olsaretti observes socialism in retreat. After a century of large-scale central planning, we now take the relative effi ciency of markets as given. Do...

... University of Edinburgh Sean McKeever Davidson College Philosophical Review, Vol. 116, No. 1, 2007 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2006-027 Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. 1. Serena Olsaretti observes...

... Philosophical Review, Vol. 116, No. 1, 2007 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2006-027 Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. 1. Serena Olsaretti observes socialism in retreat. After a century of large-scale central...

... Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. 1. Serena Olsaretti observes socialism in retreat. After a century of large-scale central planning, we now take the relative effi ciency of markets as given. Do...

... Philosophical Review, Vol. 116, No. 1, 2007 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2006-027 Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. 1. Serena Olsaretti observes socialism in retreat. After a century of large-scale central...

... Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. 1. Serena Olsaretti observes socialism in retreat. After a century of large-scale central planning, we now take the relative effi ciency of markets as given. Do...

... McKeever Davidson College Philosophical Review, Vol. 116, No. 1, 2007 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2006-027 Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. 1. Serena Olsaretti observes socialism in retreat. After...

... McKeever Davidson College Philosophical Review, Vol. 116, No. 1, 2007 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2006-027 Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. 1. Serena Olsaretti observes socialism in retreat. After...

... Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 184 pp. 1. Serena Olsaretti observes socialism in retreat. After a century of large-scale central planning, we now take the relative effi ciency of markets as given. Do...

... interpreted as “an international social practice in which societies mutually rely on common markets” (3) in order to augment national income. Trading nations share a collective responsibility to ensure that the organization of the practice treats each participant equitably. One core requirement of “structural...

... and technologies” (172). Higher-rated companies could market their goods with a ‘Fair Trade Bio’ label, much like the ‘Fair Trade’ labels that are currently used to market coffee and other consumer goods. Hassoun anticipates that this rating system could be the focus both of activism and of coordination...

... by it. He rejects anarchist arguments both from natural rights (principally in chapter 6) and from market considerations (chapter 3), arguing persuasively that anarchists have not shown how the market pro- vision of a collective good like social order can overcome problems of inefficiency...

... obligations are strong enough to ground the robust authority that we intuitively think that managers have. The reason is that employees are often asked to do things that they find morally objectionable. They are asked to resist unionization efforts, market unhealthy foods to children, develop gas-guzzling...

.... Broome, John. 1993 . Can a Humean be Moderate? In Value, Welfare, and Morality , ed. R. G. Frey and Christopher Morris. New York: Cambridge University Press. Buchanan, James. 1954 . Social Choice, Democracy and Free Markets. Journal of Political Economy 62 : 114 -23. Edgeworth, F. Y. [1881...

... replace Dworkin’s reliance on markets, nor does he explore in much detail how his criticisms might be related to the work of other theorists. Nonetheless, Macleod’s arguments are quite powerful against any theory of distributive justice that is built around markets even in their ideal form. His...