Levelling Power: Non-Consequentialist Criticism of ‘Economic’ Monopoly

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Brief Overview

Revisiting the Levellers' debates about monopoly illuminates the origins of modern liberty, individual claim rights, and popular sovereignty. We are also provided a non-consequentialist language with which to consider today's problems of monopoly.

Author

• Kaarish Kalpesh Maniar, Columbia University