Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part 1 The Basis of the Neo Liberal State
1: The Nature of the Neo Liberal State and the Rule of Law
2: The Foundations of the Rule of Law as a Moral Ideal
3: Freedom, Coercion and the Law
4: Social Justice: A Mirage ?
5: Neo Liberal Rights
6: The Welfare State and the Politics of Social Justice
7: Social Justice and the welfare State: Institutional Problems
8: Government and Markets
9: Government, Money and Taxation
Part 2 Neo Liberal Principles: A Critical Perspective
10: Freedom and Coercion: An Alternative Account
11: Social Justice and Neo Liberalism: A Critique
12: Neo Liberal Rights: A Wider Perspective
13: Concluding Reflections

About the Author

Raymond Plant born in 1945. Lecturer in Philosophy University of Manchester 1967; Senior Lecturer from 1974; Professor of Politics University of Southampton and subsequently Dean of Social Sciences between 1979 and 1994; Master of St. Catherine's College Oxford 1994-2000; Research professor of Modern European Political Thought University of Southampton 2000-2; Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy at King's College Law School from 2002 to the present;
Dean and Head of the School between 2006-8; Vincent Wright Professor of Law and Political Philosophy at Sciences Po Paris in 2008. He is the author of 10 books on Political Philosophy. He has taught
at the University of Frankfurt and Lisbon.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Plant's book is a discussion of the fundamental political philosophy behind the Thatcher-Reagan espousal of free markets...very thorough treatment'
The Financial Times
`[T]he fairness and lucidity of his discussion is striking.'
NE Simmonds, The Cambridge Law Journal
`In order to criticise neoliberal ideology, one must first reconstruct it, and this is exactly what Plant does. The result is the most authoritative and comprehensive critique of neoliberal thinking to date.'
John Gray, New Statesman