Isocracy: The Institutions of Equality
by Nicolò Bellanca (Author)

About the Author
Nicolò Bellanca is Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Florence, Italy. He is the author of a broad array of scholarly articles, books and textbooks about both the history of economic thought and development economics. His current research focuses on the theory of institutional change.

About this book
In the twentieth century there were two great political and social paradigms, the liberal-democratic and the libertarian (in its various socialist, anarchist, and communist delineations). The central idea of the first approach is isonomy: the exclusion of any discrimination on the basis that legal rights are afforded equally to all people. The central idea of the second approach is rather to acknowledge and address a broader spectrum of known inequalities. Such an approach, Bellanca argues, allows the pursuit of pluralism as well as a more realistic and complex view of what equality is. Here he analyzes the main economic and political institutions of an isocratic society, and in so doing, effectively outlines how a utopian society can be structurally and anthropologically realized.
This book is ideal reading for an audience interested in the critique of contemporary capitalism through a renewed perspective of democratic socialism and leftist libertarianism.

Brief contents
1. A Good Place to Live
2. The Economic Institutions of Isocracy
3. The Political Institutions of Isocracy
4. The Anthropological Mutation
5. The Structural Possibility of an Alternative

Series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
Pages: 204
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (April 1, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3030006948
ISBN-13: 978-3030006945

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