Preface List of Figures 1 Liberal Egalitarianism Introduction Well-being Autonomous Agency Access to Resources The Development of Essential Capabilities Democratic Will-Formation 2 Towards a Liberal Egalitarian Normative Theory of Institutions The Household Market Production and Distribution The State Civil Society: The Public Sphere and Voluntary Associations The Regime of Global Governance 3 Misunderstandings, False Starts, Further Questions Some Marxian Objections to Liberal Egalitarianism Liberal Egalitarian Criticisms of Marx Conclusion 4 The Beginning Level of Marxian Theory The Beginning Level of Theoretical Abstraction (1): The Commodity, Value, Abstract Labour The Beginning Level of Theoretical Abstraction (2): Money Normative Considerations Conclusion 5 Marx's Concept of Capital Marx's Concept of Capital (1): Capital as a 'Dominant Subject' Ontological and Normative Implications of the General Formula of Capital Normative Implications Marx's Concept of Capital (2): Capital as a 'Pseudo-Subject' 6 Human Flourishing and the Structural Tendencies of Capitalism The Capital/Wage Labour Relationship Overaccumulation Crises Financial Crises Environmental Crises Severe Global Inequality and Poverty Conclusion 7 A Liberal Egalitarian Response to the Marxian Challenge The Critique of Economism A Reform Agenda 8 Towards A Marxian Theory of 'The Political' Five Theses on the Capitalist State A Critical Examination of Liberal Egalitarian Proposals Conclusion 9 Competing Perspectives on Neoliberalism A Liberal Egalitarian Narrative Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: A Marxian Critique of Neoliberalism Conclusion 10 Two Modified Versions of Liberal Egalitarianism 'Neo-Schumpeterian' Liberal Egalitarianism The Normative Promise of 'Commons-Based Peer Production' 11 Modified Liberal Egalitarianism and the Present Moment in World History Prospects for a New 'Golden Age' The Prospects of Commons-Based Peer Production Conclusion 12 Property-Owning Democracy: A Liberal Egalitarianism Beyond Capitalism? Property-Owning Democracy (1) Property-Owning Democracy (2) Property-Owning Democracy (3) 13 Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism The Argument Thus Far Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism Bibliography Index.
Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism : Marx and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century