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"Labor and Republican Liberty"

by Gourevitch, Alex (2011)

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In the contemporary debate about republican liberty, discussion of the economy has come largely as an afterthought. About the question of work and labor we have heard very little. 1 Only recently have we seen anything like a systematic attempt to explore the implications of the republican ideal for economic life, 2 and even then the organization of work is essentially ignored. For instance, in a recent essay,“Freedom in the Market,” Philip Pettit looks at “three features of the market (property, exchange, and regulation) and at the ways in which they …

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