Free Movement

This work, analyzing the crossing of state boundaries by people and money, draws comparisons between the different ways that states treat inflowing money and people, demonstrating that states place many restrictions on the movements of people, but few on that of money. Yet, indubitably, many millions of citizens of the world would move to different countries if they could. The book examines its central thesis from five perspectives – the liberal egalitarianism of John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin, the anti-statist position of Robert Nozick, Marxist analysis, natural law theorizing and, finally, political realism.

Author Biography

Brian Barry is Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and sometime editor of both Ethics and the British Journal o f Political Science. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Robert E. Goodin is now Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, having spent the previous decade teaching government at the University of Essex. He is author of, most recently, Motivating Political Morality (1992) and is founding editor of the new Journal o f Political Philosophy, commencing publication from Blackwell in 1993.