Abstract
Our dear colleague, Scott Timcke, successfully defended his PHD dissertation on February 19, 2015. Here is the abstract of his dissertation “Luck and Liberty: The Political Economy of Life Chances”.
Highlights
Is the abstract of his dissertation “Luck and Liberty: The Political Economy of Life Chances”: Abstract In the wake of growing unrest about economic disparities between the “one per cent” and other classes in western societies, I argue that an assessment of life chances in contemporary capitalist liberal democracies has assumed a renewed urgency
The focus in this dissertation is di-‐ rected at higher levels of abstraction dealing with the political economy of life chances as a feature of life in western capitalist liberal democracies—societies often promoted as the freest and the most equitable in the world
I do this because too often debates about unfairness and inequality become squabbles about the accuracy of data and the suitability of econometric models but miss the point about ethics and exploitation; all of which distracts from reform. Developing this test has necessitated a movement through discussions of luck egalitarianism in the moral philosophies of liberalism and Marxism to demonstrate that much of what a person seeks to claim as their own is radically contingent
Summary
PHD Defence: “Luck and Liberty: The Political Economy of Life Chances” By Scott Timcke To address these issues I develop a conceptual test to demonstrate how unfair contemporary cap-‐ italist societies happen to be. I do this because too often debates about unfairness and inequality become squabbles about the accuracy of data and the suitability of econometric models but miss the point about ethics and exploitation; all of which distracts from reform.
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