Individual Rights over Economic Equality

John F. M. McDermott (1932–2022) was Professor Emeritus of the State University of New York in Old Westbury, USA. He is the author of several books, including Economics in Real Time and Employers' Economics versus Employees' Economy.Steven Colatrella taught sociology, international relations, and political theory at Bard College, The New School, the University of Padua, and the American University of Rome. Colatrella’s most recent book is Looking Over the Abyss: The US and Europe Beyond Capitalism.Frances A. Maher is Professor Emerita of Education at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, USA. Maher’s most recent book is Privilege and Diversity in the Academy, which she coauthored with Mary Kay Thomson Tetreault. Michael Meeropol is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New England University. He previously taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the City University of New York. An economist, author, and activist, he has published several books. Alongside Howard J. Sherman and Paul D. Sherman, Meeropol co-authored Principles of Macroeconomics. He also co-authored We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg with Robert Meeropol and is the sole author of Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution.

• Introduction:  John McDermott’s Body of Work.- Chapter 1 As Rights Expand Equality Declines.- Chapter 2 Ours is Not a “Liberal Society”.- Chapter 3 Inalienable Rights and the Abortion Wars.- Chapter 4 Elements of a Theory of Social Rights.- Chapter 5 Looking at the Workplace.- Chapter 6 Interregnum.- Chapter 7 Afterword.