As Rights Expand Equality Declines

John F. M. McDermott ()
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John F. M. McDermott: State University of New York, Old Westbury

Chapter Chapter 1 in Individual Rights over Economic Equality, 2024, pp 1-31 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Two distinct discussions are required to make sense of this De-coupling of Rights from Equality. On the one hand, there has been an employer counteroffensive, still in process, against the economic well-being and conditions of work of their employees. And, on the other there is the perennial bias of Natural Rights philosophy to overlook issues of social and especially economic equality. Here the chapter develops the remarkably similar views of the arch-conservative, James Buchanan and the equally arch-liberal John Rawls on the primacy of private property in a socially constructed world. In that otherwise so attractive Natural Rights scheme of things, it appears that Liberty must always outweigh Equality.

Keywords: Economic rights and equality; Radical decline in economic rights and equality; De-valuing of equality issues; John Rawls; James M. Buchanan; Your Liberty ends at my Property; Rights of employees; Master/Servant relationship; Metaphysics of natural rights; Friedrich Hayek (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-75103-5_1

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