Gift Giving and Philanthropy in Market Democracy

Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 26 (3-4):408-422 (2014)
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ABSTRACTClassical liberals and libertarians assign fundamental importance to economic liberties and champion bottom-up approaches to social welfare. They point to the significance, even superiority, of philanthropy in providing for society's most disadvantaged citizens, and they defend rights of inheritance and intergenerational transmission of wealth. So one might think that John Tomasi's “market democracy” would defend gift giving and philanthropy. But market democracy leaves far less room than might be thought for an enthusiastic defense of gift giving and philanthropy, and this distances market democracy more than we might expect from the territory of classical liberalism and libertarianism.

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Democratic Capitalism: A Reply to Critics.John Tomasi - 2014 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 26 (3-4):439-471.

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Philosophy, politics, democracy: selected essays.Joshua Cohen - 2009 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

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