Rethinking Libertarianism: Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government

David Ellerman

Challenge, 2018, vol. 61, issue 2, 156-182

Abstract: In her recent book, Private Government, Elizabeth Anderson makes a powerful and pragmatic case against the abuses experienced by employees in conventional corporations. The purpose of this review-essay, says the author, is to contrast Anderson’s pragmatic critique of many abuses in the employment relationship with a principled critique of the relationship itself. Can we really rent ourselves to our employers? This principled critique is based on the theory of inalienable rights, a theory that was the basis for the abolition of the so-called voluntary slavery in today’s democratic countries. When understood in modern terms, that same theory applies as well against the voluntary “self-rental” that is the basis for our current economic system.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/05775132.2018.1443976

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