Cohesive Capitalism Event
Hosted by the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism
Capitalism and Distributive Justice
Samuel Freeman (Pennsylvania)
Tuesday 28 May 2024 13:00 - 14:00
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About this event
This is a lunchtime discussion about ‘Capitalism and Distributive Justice’ with distinguished philosopher Samuel Freeman, hosted by the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism.
These occasional seminars are a chance to be part of a multi-disciplinary community at LSE interested in developing a new economic paradigm that serves the common interest.
There are competing accounts of how capitalist economies should be organized in order to become just economic systems. Primary among these are laissez-faire capitalism, welfare-state capitalism, the social democratic welfare state, and property-owning democracy.
This session will review the main features of these ideal types, and the theories of distributive justice that support them in order to illuminate differing rationales for supporting a just distribution of income, wealth, and economic prerogatives within a private property market system.
Samuel Freeman is the Avalon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He writes on the philosophical bases of political and economic justice, particularly the fair distribution of income and wealth.
His latest manuscript is Debating Libertarianism: The Case Against (forthcoming Oxford). Freeman has also written books on Liberalism and Distributive Justice (Oxford 2018), Justice and the Social Contract (Oxford 2007), and the political philosophy of John Rawls (Rawls, Routledge, 2007).
He is currently a visitor at The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) and the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism at LSE.
This event is organised by the LSE Programme on Cohesive Capitalism
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