List of tables and figures About the author Introduction: Six impossible things before breakfast Part One: Individualism 1.1 Individualism Moral individualism Methodological individualism Substantive individualism 1.2 Individualism and collectivism Individual and collective discourses Part Two: The moral dimensions of individualism 2.1 Individual value and individual rights Dignity, respect and rights Individual rights The equality of persons 2.2. Autonomy and self-determination Choice Self-development 2.3 Personal responsibility Reward and punishment Individualism and moral judgments 2.4 Possessive individualism Property Self-ownership 2.
5 Individual welfare Individualism and individual welfare Part Three: Methodological individualism and rational self-interest 3.1 Utility and choice Utility Preference and choice Choice and well-being 3.2 Self-interest Incentives and motivation 3.3 Rationality Indifference curves The maximisation of utility Some methodological problems 3.4 The Pareto principle The problem in inequality Part Four: Substantive policy 4.1 Choice and the market How markets reconcile choices The limits to markets Market failure 4.2 More of the market: one solution for everything Structural adjustment The price mechanism Rationing by price 4.3 Personalised services Personalised approaches Personalisation in practice 4.
4 The individualisation of social policy Part Five: Individuals and collective action 5.1 Individual and social choices 5.2 Collective action Collective action and the individual The tragedy of the commons 5.3 Solidarity and voluntary collective action Social protection Redistribution and solidarity 5.4 Public services Non-market failure Public services and the individual Part Six: Government and public policy 6.1 The individual versus the state The minimal state The liberal state 6.2 The role of government Democracy The welfare state 6.3 The moral agenda Translating moral purposes into practice The objections to government action 6.
4 Social policy and the individual Reclaiming individualism: individualist public policies Index Index of names.