Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism

Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism

Democratic Problems, Market Solutions and the Ethics of Preference Satisfaction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvFilipe Nobre Faria

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Yet, the book concludes that free markets are not a solution to the problems of liberal democracy because both market and democratic liberal institutions rest on the liberal satisfaction of preferences, an ethic which hurts group evolutionary fitness.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-11-13
Mått148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt448 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
Antal sidor239
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030314958

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Filipe Nobre Faria is Researcher and Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Ethics at the Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. He earned his PhD in Political Theory (2016) from King’s College London and his Master’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2011) from the University of East Anglia. His main research interest lies in applying the insights of the biological sciences to issues in social and political philosophy.

1. Introduction.- 2. From Public Choice to Evolutionary Theory.- 3. Public Choice Theory: Liberal Democracy’s Shortcomings and Their Institutional Market Enhancing Solutions.- 4. The Evolutionary Framework: Multilevel Selection, Morality and Preferences.- 5. Reassessing Liberal Democracy’s Shortcomings and Their Institutional Market Enhancing Solutions.- 6. The Market: Evolutionary Limits and Possibilities.- 7. Conclusion.