Bücher der Reihe Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century

Levine traces the history of the concept of efficiency, from Hobbes, through the utilitarian tradition, to contemporary economic and philosophical paradigms; and examines the strengths and weaknesses of the democratic theory implicit in John Rawls's

Economic theories from the left and the right are dismissed as undemocratic, and a plan for restructuring the relationship between markets and governments according to effects, rather than contributions is outlined here in this stimulating volume.