Markets and Social Justice: A Conversation with Nick Cowen

April 26, 2023 00:57:16
Markets and Social Justice: A Conversation with Nick Cowen
ReImagining Liberty
Markets and Social Justice: A Conversation with Nick Cowen

Apr 26 2023 | 00:57:16

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Show Notes

We can take the social and economic concerns of the left seriously while still embracing free markets. In fact, if we understand the nature and effects of markets correctly, it can become compelling to view them not as antagonistic to those concerns, but as the most powerful solution to them available.

I’m joined today by Nick Cowen. He’s a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln in the UK and author of the book Neoliberal Social Justice, which defends commercial society on progressive grounds.

ReImagining Liberty is a project of The UnPopulist, and is produced by Landry Ayres. Podcast art by Sergio R. M. Duarte. Music by Kevin MacLeod.



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