Preface
Introduction
Part 1 The Basis of the Neo Liberal State
The Nature of the Neo Liberal State and the Rule of Law
The Foundations of the Rule of Law as a Moral Ideal
Freedom, Coercion and the Law
Social Justice: A Mirage ?
Neo Liberal Rights
The Welfare State and the Politics of Social Justice
Social Justice and the welfare State: Institutional Problems
Government and Markets
Government, Money and Taxation
Part 2 Neo Liberal Principles: A Critical Perspective
Freedom and Coercion: An Alternative Account
Social Justice and Neo Liberalism: A Critique
Neo Liberal Rights: A Wider Perspective
Concluding Reflections
Raymond Plant born in 1945. Lecturer in Philosophy University of
Manchester 1967; Senior Lecturer from 1974; Professor of Politics
University of Southampton and subsequently Dean of Social Sciences
between 1979 and 1994; Master of St. Catherine's College Oxford
1994-2000; Research professor of Modern European Political Thought
University of Southampton 2000-2; Professor of Jurisprudence and
Political Philosophy at King's College Law School from 2002 to
the
present; Dean and Head of the School between 2006-8; Vincent Wright
Professor of Law and Political Philosophy at Sciences Po Paris in
2008. He is the author of 10 books on Political Philosophy. He
has
taught at the University of Frankfurt and Lisbon.
Plant's critique of neo-liberalism, focused on showing the
"intrinsic contradictions" of the neo-liberalist theories (or
pseudo-theories)is..appropriate, well-documented and
convincing.
*Carlo Focarelli, IYIL*
Plant's book is a discussion of the fundamental political
philosophy behind the Thatcher-Reagan espousal of free
markets...very thorough treatment
*Samuel Brittan, The Financial Times*
[T]he fairness and lucidity of his discussion is striking.
*NE Simmonds, The Cambridge Law Journal*
In order to criticise neoliberal ideology, one must first
reconstruct it, and this is exactly what Plant does. The result is
the most authoritative and comprehensive critique of neoliberal
thinking to date.
*John Gray, New Statesman*
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