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    Drawing on ideas and arguments identifiable within the tradition of 'left-libertarianism', this book develops market democratic interpretations of the ideas of predistribution and the property-owning democracy, and presents a powerful case for an institutional reform which constitutes a genuinely progressive alternative to more familiar social democratic institutions.
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    Neo-classical liberalism, ‘market freedom’, and the right to private property
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (6): 855-876. 2023.
    Neo-classical liberals aim to offer a more consistent, coherent, and morally ambitious form of liberalism than the traditional classical and social liberal alternatives by providing grounds for a strong commitment to both individual economic liberty and social justice. The key neo-classical liberal claim is that the stringent protection of negative economic liberty does not conflict with, but is rather an essential component of, a commitment to political and social justice. My focus in this arti…Read more
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    ‘Predistribution’, property-owning democracy and land value taxation
    Politics, Philosophy and Economics 15 (1): 67-91. 2016.
    The term ‘predistribution’ draws attention to the need for policies and institutions that are designed to improve the position of the least advantaged members of society by generating a fairer distribution of opportunities and benefits from the operation of the free market system, with less reliance on redistributive tax-and-transfer mechanisms. Although the idea of progressive predistribution has only recently begun to attract the attention of politicians and commentators in the mainstream medi…Read more
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    Property-Owning Democracy and the Idea of Highest-Order Interests
    Social Theory and Practice 38 (3): 455-482. 2012.
    This paper examines the distinction drawn by Rawls between the ideas of property-owning democracy and welfare state capitalism, and assesses the strength of the support provided by justice as fairness for the implementation of the kinds of policies that distinguish property-owning democracy most sharply from welfare state capitalism. It is argued first that justice as fairness does not provide strong grounds for the implementation of policies designed to improve access to and broaden the distrib…Read more
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    Property-Owning Democracy and the Priority of Liberty
    Analyse & Kritik 35 (1): 71-92. 2013.
    The distinction drawn by Rawls between the ideas of property-owning democracy and welfare state capitalism parallels his distinction between justice-based ‘liberalisms of freedom’ and utilitarian-based ‘liberalisms of happiness’. In this paper I argue that Rawls’s failure to attach the same level of significance to essential socio-economic rights and liberties as he attached to the traditional liberal civil and political rights and liberties gives justice as fairness a quasi-utilitarian characte…Read more