Maintains emphasis on individual freedom & constitutional govt. but looks favourably upon state intervention
The Modern Liberal View of Freedom
- Keeps many of the main doctrines of classical liberalism
- Negative freedom promotes a "survival of the fittest" system, which may undermine equality of opportunity, social justice, economic efficiency & social harmony
- Positive freedom, advocated by T.H. Green
The Modern Liberal View of the Economy
- Rejected the free-market economy in favour of a mixed economy with an enabling state
- Keynesian economics: public spending should be used to pull the economy out of depression
- 1942 Beveridge Report: want, disease, ignorance, squalor & idleness
- Welfare: "hand, up, not a hand out"
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