Equality of Permission.

  • Published In: Social Research, 2025, v. 92, n. 1. P. 127 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen 3 of 3

Abstract

Liberalism has been under attack since its dawn in the eighteenth century. Early and late the attack has come from tyrants wishing to keep people as children or slaves, or at best cowed. After a true liberalism's brief fashionability in the early nineteenth century, however, the attacks started coming also from socialists and New Liberals, espousing a new statism. From socialists the promise was equality of income at the finish line; from social democrats it was equality of opportunity at the starting line. Yet neither is achievable in substantial magnitude. Only equality of permission is, tomorrow afternoon. And equality of permission, alone, is what has made us very rich and reasonably virtuous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Social Research. 2025/03, Vol. 92, Issue 1, p127
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:0037-783X
  • DOI:10.1353/sor.2025.a956289
  • Accession Number:184329125
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