Martin O'Neill: On Rawls, Democratic Socialism, and Alternatives to Capitalism

Martin O'Neill, University of York
Social Justice and Economic Systems: On Rawls, Democratic Socialism, and Alternatives to Capitalism
My talk is concerned with the question of what kind of economic system would be needed in order to realise Rawls’s principles of social justice. Hitherto, debates about ‘property-owning democracy’ and ‘liberal socialism’ have been overly schematic, in various respects, and have therefore missed some of the most important issues regarding the relationships between social justice and economic institutions and systems.