In Sandel’s “Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution,” he argues that the New Deal betrays the republican tradition by now placing emphasis on economic rights in its support of the “Keynesian Revolution” therefore, more emphasis is placed on contemporary liberalism’s view that freedom depends on self-government with respect to individual choice and not on the republican tradition’s formative, virtuous citizens. For both Sandel and Fairfield, “postwar prosperity depended on building and economy ‘capable of matching mass consumption with mass production’” (Sandel 268). However, many republicans were concerned about the workforce being the location in which responsible, citizens were cultivated. Both Fairfield and Sandel argue that if purchasing
