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Debating Ethics eBook Series

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  • Debating Libertarianism

    What Makes Society Just?

    by Samuel Freeman, Jason Brennan ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    Debating Libertarianism offers readers a sustained debate between two leading political philosophers over which vision of society--Rawlsian left-liberalism or libertarianism--is best and most just. In this crucial and timely book, Samuel Freeman and Jason Brennan consider both fundamental questions of justice and issues of applied policy. Along the way, they debate which economic rights people ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Understanding Marxism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? Americans, especially now, confront serious questions and evidences that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1% far, far better than what it is doing to the vast mass of the people. Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Free and Equal

    A Manifesto for a Just Society

    by Daniel Chandler ...
    Imagine: You are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it—rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler argues in this hugely ambitious and exhilarating ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada

    by Evelyn Kallen, Leo Panitch ...
    This book examines key issues surrounding ethnicity and human rights in our country. It asks: How do we account for the persistence of racism in the face of increasing legal protection for human rights? Kallen's classic study reveals the ways in which human rights violations, by way of discrimination on the bases of race and ethnicity, create and sustain the marginalized status of diverse racial ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Machinery of Government

    Public Administration and the Liberal State

    by Joseph Heath ...
    In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdated. The vast number of economic and social problems it confronts is such that a great deal of rule-making power is now delegated to a class of civil ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Real World of Democracy

    by C.B. Macpherson ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impact on one another. He suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Third Way

    The Renewal of Social Democracy

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony Giddens shows that developing a third way is not only a possibility but a necessity in modern ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Why Deliberative Democracy?

    by Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson ...
    The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy?, they move the debate forward beyond their influential book, Democracy and ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Political Philosophy

    An Introduction

    by Jason Brennan ...
    Most political debate is superficial. Just turn on cable news. Philosophy is for people who want to understand the deep questions. The goal of political philosophy is to determine the standards by which we judge different institutions good or bad, just or unjust. Some people might think they don’t have much need of political philosophy: “Who cares about wishy-washy obtuse notions of justice? I’m a ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • A Family Matter

    Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy

    by Megan Gaucher ...
    How do we define family? In an attempt to police incoming migrants, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Even when immigrants had no intention of sponsoring family members, their familial networks affected their entry to Canada, resulting in differentiated treatment of families living within and beyond Canadian borders ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Free Market Fairness

    by John Tomasi ...
    Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited government and the ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The State of Democratic Theory

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action.Some accounts of democracy's purposes focus on aggregating ... Read more

    $25.19 USD