Human Nature, Economic Laws, and the Reconstitution of Capitalism
Human Nature, Economic Laws, and the Reconstitution of Capitalism
This chapter examines the moderate brand of progressive liberalism that gained prominence during the 1920s. Progressive centrist-liberalism overlapped on several issues. It accepted a certain role of the state, but refused to subscribe to a faith in the state as the disinterested agent of the community, reverting instead to a more individualistic conception of human nature and social relations. It magnified the ideological differences between liberalism and a socialist/trade-unionist Labour party. It was also less reflective, philosophically oriented, or synthetic in the broad cultural sense of integrating various braches of human knowledge.
Keywords: progressive liberalism, centrist-liberalism, new liberalism, Britain, efficiency, capitalism, capital levy
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