Equity and Political Economy in Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes is often viewed as a seminal figure in the development of the homo economicus philosophical anthropology central to the acquisitive, bourgeois morality of liberal modernity. The present study challenges this interpretation of Hobbes as an antecedent to free market ideology by arguing t...

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Published in:American journal of political science 2020-10, Vol.64 (4), p.823-835
Main Author: Ward, Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Allocation
Anthropology
Contracts
Determinism
Economic development
Free markets
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Liberalism
Modernity
Morality
Philosophical anthropology
Political economy
Politics
Resource allocation
Social networks
Social welfare
Taxation
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