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What Was Liberalism? #4 Three Problems With Liberalism

Hello lovely Patrons! Here is the fourth and final part in the 'What Was Liberalism?' series. I hope you like it - this series has been fun for me!

What Was Liberalism? #4 Three Problems With Liberalism

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Here's something maybe you can think out on a video: Liberal ideas about property rights, as conceived by Locke, were actually derived from prior *labor* rights, which conflict with capitalism. Maybe talk about that, and the Marxist idea that proper distribution of resources would not require the (Hobbes-ian Leviathan) state to enforce contracts... a horizon within which to find a new better less ideological political philosophy?

Jeremy McMillan

5:48 Note: Richard Thaler got the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, for his work establishing the macroeconomics of irrational market behaviors. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2017/oct/09/nobel-prize-in-economics-due-to-be-unveiled-business-live" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2017/oct/09/nobel-prize-in-economics-due-to-be-unveiled-business-live</a>

Jeremy McMillan


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