Isocracy : The Institutions of Equality Hardback

by Nicolo Bellanca

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism series

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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. 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.