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“A quite similar enterprise … interpreted quite differently”? James Buchanan, John Rawls and the politics of the social contract
- Abstract:
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A striking aspect of the initial reception of John Rawls is that he was embraced by leading market-liberal theorists such as Friedrich Hayek and James Buchanan. This article investigates the reasons for the free-market right's sympathetic interest in the early Rawls by providing a historical account of the dialogue between Rawls and his key neoliberal interlocutor, James Buchanan. We set out the common intellectual context, notably the influence of Frank Knight, that framed the initial work o...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Modern Intellectual History Journal website
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1010-1033
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-10-06
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1479-2451
- ISSN:
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1479-2443
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1138334
- Local pid:
- pubs:1138334
- Deposit date:
- 2020-10-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Jackson and Stemplowska
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244320000487
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