In all fairness : equality, liberty, and the quest for human dignity /

In all fairness : equality, liberty, and the quest for human dignity /

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Imprint:	Oakland, CA : Independent Institute, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 309 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Equality -- Philosophy. Liberty -- Philosophy. Dignity -- Philosophy. Equality -- Philosophy. Liberty -- Philosophy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12486014

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Other authors / contributors:	Munger, Michael C., editor. Coyne, Christopher J., editor. Whaples, Robert M., editor.
ISBN:	9781598133370 1598133373 9781598133356 9781598133363 9781598133318
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 05, 2019).
Summary:	"This excellent volume offers an incisive, indeed, decisive, critique of modern egalitarian thought, whose intellectual strength remains weak even as its popularity becomes ever greater. No summary can do justice to the arguments presented, all of which are strong in the two dimensions that matter most in policy work--a clear sense of theory, and a clear empirical grounding that tests the theories in question. The book's individual chapters all share those characteristics. To be sure, there is, out of necessity some useful overlap in their content, but the overall conclusion is inescapable. Whatever the abstract appeal of egalitarian arguments they cannot survive the institutional, political, and economic pressures of any complex society"--
Other form:	Print version: In all fairness. Oakland, California : Independent Institute, [2019] 9781598133356

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Summary:	Growing concern about inequality has led to proposals to remake American society according to ill-conceived and coercive "egalitarian" values that are fundamentally unfair.<br> <br> This unique book reveals the modern romance with equality as a destructive flirtation. The elites who advocate such notions claim they champion the poor--but more often than not the nostrums of this managerial class undermine, rather than advance, mass prosperity and human well-being.<br> <br> The authors of In All Fairness challenge all of the prevailing egalitarian ideas, including the claim that the country is riven by inequality in the first place. After all, our economy thrives with a division of labor that allows individuals who are unequal in interests and talents to pursue their own unique goals. Looked at in this way, equality is far more widespread than overheated rhetoric might lead one to expect--as factual data show.<br> <br> But it is an equality of a particularly valuable type--one arrived at, not by top-down attempts to impose economic uniformity, but by our respecting inviolable rules of fair play and the dignity of each person, a dignity that requires everyone to respect the voluntary transactions of others. This approach holds equity, liberty, diversity, and prosperity together. Would we want it any other way in America and anywhere around the world?<br> <br> The authors draw on economics, philosophy, religion, law, political science, and history to provide answers to a perennial question that especially agitates the American public today: Can the coercive powers of the state be used to achieve a kind of arithmetic equality? The authors, each in their own way, make a strong case that they should not be used in this fashion.<br> <br> Love inequality or loathe it, In All Fairness is full of key insights about the connections among fairness, liberty, equality and the quest for human dignity. You won't think about wealth and poverty, equality and inequality, in the same way ever again.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 309 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781598133370 1598133373 9781598133356 9781598133363 9781598133318