Isocracy: The Institutions of Equality
In: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism Ser.
Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- 1 A Good Place to Live -- Abstract -- 1 What Is the Aim of a Good Place to Live? -- 2 Power as the Fundamental Motivation -- 3 Power Is a Sure Cost for Those Who Are Subject to It and an Uncertain Change for Those Who Hold It -- 4 Complex Equality and Simplicity of Power -- 5 Distributive Justice and Political Justice -- 6 From Power Distribution to Power Production -- 7 Isocracy as a Coherent and Sustainable Ideal -- References -- 2 The Economic Institutions of Isocracy -- Abstract -- 1 Premise -- 2 Cooperative Controlled by Shares (Labour-Capital Partnership) -- 3 The Social Dividend -- 4 The Common Goods Sector -- 5 The Social Salary -- 6 Currency and Money -- 7 The Redistribution of Working, Care, Leisure, Creativity and Politics Times -- 8 Socialisation and Investment Planning -- 9 Taxation on Income and Wealth -- 10 The Transformation of the Positional Competition -- 11 Drawing Conclusions -- References -- 3 The Political Institutions of Isocracy -- Abstract -- 1 Representative Democracy and Radical Conflicts -- 2 From Representative Democracy to Political Isocracy -- 3 Institutions Based on Reputation of Impartiality -- 4 The Institutions of Distributed Power -- 5 The Institutions of Power-Sharing -- 6 Partisans Institutions -- 7 Federalist Institutions -- 8 Drawing Conclusions -- References -- 4 The Anthropological Mutation -- Abstract -- 1 Premise -- 2 Passions as Foundation of the Human Condition -- 3 From Passions to Needs and Emotions -- 4 The Capitalist Removal of (Hot) Passions -- 5 Power to the Imagination -- 6 Conflictual Passions -- 7 Drawing Conclusions -- References -- 5 The Structural Possibility of an Alternative -- Abstract -- References -- Index.
