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Social Contract, Free Ride (Collected Papers of Anthony de Jasay)
Anthony Jasay
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 276 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JPHC; KC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 628.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc.
Number of pages
276
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780865977372
SKU
V9780865977372
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About Anthony Jasay
Anthony de Jasay is an independent theorist living in France. Other books he has written for Liberty Fund include The State, Justice and Its Surroundings, Social Contract, Free Ride, Political Philosophy, Clearly, and Political Economy, Concisely.
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