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A moral and economic critique of the new property-owning democrats: on behalf of a Rawlsian welfare state.

Property-owning democracies combine the regulative and redistributive functions of the welfare state with the governmental aim of ensuring that wealth and capital are widely dispersed. John Rawls, political philosophy's most famous property-owning democrat, argued that property-owning democracy was...

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Published in:Philosophical Studies Vol. 172; no. 2; pp. 283 - 305
Main Author: Vallier, Kevin
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Feb2015
Subjects:
Democracy
Capital
Wealth
Rawls, John, 1921-2002
Political philosophy
United States
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