Debating Capitalism: Market Liberalism or Social Democracy (Debating Ethics)

Which form of capitalism serves justice, not just at home, but worldwide?In Debating Capitalism: Market Liberalism or Social Democracy, leading philosophers Richard J.Arneson and Jason Brennan square off in a clear, forceful, and timely debate about how market societies should be structured-and for whose benefit. Brennan defends a market liberal vision: strong property rights, open global trade, labor mobility, and minimal government interference.He claims that modern social democratic welfare states often serve the affluent.Social democracies redistribute from the global top 1% to the top 10%, while keeping the truly poor-those in developing countries-locked out.Capitalism, by contrast, has proven the most powerful force in history for reducing global poverty.Brennan argues that freer global markets, not bigger welfare states, are the moral path forward. Arneson defends social democratic capitalism, and in particular Nordic social democracy (NSD), featuring capitalist markets alongsid