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This chapter comprehensively examines how the system of capitals as a whole presents a challenge to the reality of freedom, as institutionalized in the different spheres of right. Although it is shown how capital remains an institution of economic freedom whose abolition would restrict civil autonomy, the chapter proceeds to show how capital still jeopardizes the environmental conditions of right, property right, morality, household freedom, equal economic opportunity, and political freedom. Only once this challenge is fully recognized can we understand the private and public interventions that should be taken to give capitalism a human face and make capital compatible with justice.
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Winfield, R.D. (2016). Capital’s Challenge to Right. In: Rethinking Capital. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39841-9_16
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