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Social Contract, Free Ride by Anthony De JASAY (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLiberty Fund, Incorporated
ISBN-100865977011
ISBN-139780865977013
eBay Product ID (ePID)65958001
Product Key Features
Number of Pages276 Pages
Publication NameSocial Contract, Free Ride
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPublic Finance, History & Theory, Economics / General
Publication Year2008
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorAnthony De Jasay
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length6.1 in
Item Width9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2007-036321
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal320.1/1
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
Table Of ContentIntroduction; Commitment to Co-operation Custom; Promise, Performance, and Enforcement Defaults; State-of-Nature Co-ordination; Social Contract; Social Choice; The Foundations of Voluntariness; Constructive Risk; An Ethics Turnpike; The Unfairness of Anarchy; The Return of the Free Rider; Index.
SynopsisSocial Contract, Free Ride is a cogent argument that strikes at the very foundations of traditional economic apologies for coercive action by the state to fulfill necessary public utility. Anthony de Jasay is an independent theorist living in France., Social Contract, Free Ride is a cogent argument that strikes at the very foundations of traditional economic apologies for coercive action by the state to fulfill necessary public utility. Anthony de Jasay is an independent theorist living in France. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes., This book provides a novel account of the public goods dilemma. The author shows how the social contract, in its quest for fairness, actually helps to breed the parasitic 'free riding' it is meant to suppress. He also shows how, in the absence of taxation, many public goods would be provided by spontaneous group co-operation. This would, however, imply some degree of free riding. Unwilling to tolerate such unfairness, co-operating groups would eventually drift from voluntary to compulsory solutions, heedless of the fact that this must bring back free riding with a vengeance. The author argues that the perverse incentives created by the attempt to render public provision assured and fair are a principal cause of the poor functioning of organised society.
LC Classification NumberHB846.5.D4 2008
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