Greed and Fear

Politics, Philosophy and Economics 13 (2):140-150 (2014)
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This essay argues that the proffered grounds for Cohen's rejection of market relations – that they are sustained by the base motives of greed and fear – are unsound and also unnecessary to explain the maximising behaviour induced by those relations

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Hillel Steiner
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Rescuing Justice and Equality.G. A. Cohen (ed.) - 2008 - Harvard University Press.
Why Not Socialism?Gerald Allan Cohen - 2009 - Princeton University Press.

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