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OverviewHow can citizens best protect themselves from the arbitrary power of abusive spouses, tyrannical bosses, and corrupt politicians? Exit Left makes the case that in each of these three spheres the answer is the same: exit. By promoting open and competitive markets and providing the information and financial resources necessary to enable exit, the book argues that this can empower people's voices and offer them an escape from abuse and exploitation. This will advance a conception of freedom, viz. freedom as non-domination (FND), which is central to contemporary republican thought. Neo-republicans have typically promoted FND through constitutional means (separation of powers, judicial review, the rule of law, and federalism) and participatory ones (democratic elections and oversight), but this book focuses on economic means, ones that have been neglected by contemporary republicans but were commonly invoked in the older, commercial-republican tradition of Alexander Hamilton, Immanuel Kant, and Adam Smith. Just as Philip Pettit and other neo-republicans have revived and revised classical republicanism, so this book will do the same for commercial republicanism. This revival will enlarge republican practice by encouraging greater use of market mechanisms, even as it hews closely to existing republican theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert S. Taylor (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9780198798736ISBN 10: 0198798733 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 16 March 2017 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Exit, Voice, and Credibility 2: Family 3: Market 4: State 5: Republican Policy Pluralism ConclusionReviewsTaylors book offers a careful and sophisticated argument, and in the process offers a new and refreshing take on the venerable tradition of republicanism. * 18/7/2018 * Author InformationRobert S. Taylor is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He specializes in contemporary analytic political philosophy as well as the history of liberal political thought. He has written numerous articles on Kant, Mill, Rawls, autonomy, self-ownership, and commercial republicanism, and published his first book, Reconstructing Rawls: The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness, in 2011. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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