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Del 84 - Occasional Paper
Market Socialism
A Scrutiny - "This Square Circle"
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
185 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
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Is the state a necessity, a convenience, or neither? It enforces collective choices in which some override the preferences and dispose of the resources of others. Moreover, collective choice serves as its own source of authority and preempts the space it wishes to occupy. The morality and efficacy of the result are perennial questions central to political philosophy.In Against Politics Jasay takes a closely reasoned stand, based on modern rational choice arguments, for rejecting much of mainstream thought about these matters. In the first part of the book, Excuses, he assesses the standard justification of government based consent, the power of constitutions to achieve limited government, and ideas for reforming politics. In the second part, Emergent Solutions , he explores the force of first principles to secure liberties and rights and some of the potential of spontaneous conventions for generating ordered anarchy.Written with clarity and simplicity, this powerful volume represents the central part of Jasay's recent work. Fully accessible to the general reader, it should stimulate the specialist reader to fresh thought.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
823 kr
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Is the state a necessity, a convenience, or neither? It enforces collective choices in which some override the preferences and dispose of the resources of others. Moreover, collective choice serves as its own source of authority and preempts the space it wishes to occupy. The morality and efficacy of the result are perennial questions central to political philosophy.In Against Politics Jasay takes a closely reasoned stand, based on modern rational choice arguments, for rejecting much of mainstream thought about these matters. In the first part of the book, Excuses, he assesses the standard justification of government based consent, the power of constitutions to achieve limited government, and ideas for reforming politics. In the second part, Emergent Solutions , he explores the force of first principles to secure liberties and rights and some of the potential of spontaneous conventions for generating ordered anarchy.Written with clarity and simplicity, this powerful volume represents the central part of Jasay's recent work. Fully accessible to the general reader, it should stimulate the specialist reader to fresh thought.
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
225 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2008
143 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
255 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2010
225 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
319 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
262 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
231 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
242 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2002
109 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2020
391 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2020
472 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2021
378 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2021
445 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2022
391 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2022
458 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2024
351 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2024
412 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2025
224 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2025
365 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1990
432 kr
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Self-interest tells us to enjoy, while letting others bear the cost of, such public goods as civil order, defence, social welfare and much of the rest of the moral and material underpinnings of society. However, in order to assure their provision, we agree to be coerced to pay for them as long as everybody else is coerced too. 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. Perverse incentives are created by the attempt to render public provision assured and fair. This ambition, the author argues, is a principal cause of the poor functioning of organized society.
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
135 kr
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Choice, Contract, Consent, in restating liberalism, finds its rock-bottom foundations in six first principles that are either self-evident, or readily acceptable to bona fide reason. These simple, relatively undemanding principles dictate the outline of a stable political doctrine. The doctrine is strict, in that it confines the state to mandatory tasks, instead of allowing it discretionary latitude within rules. This is a loose constraint because collective choice can choose its own rules. Political doctrine informs practical politics. In politics, collective choice replace and often overrides individual choice. For this to be legitimate, it does not suffice to respect procedures, such as those demanded by democracy. Collective choice to be morally justified, needs substantive legitimacy too. Choice, Contract, Consent develops the conditions that substantive legitimacy must meet and delineates the restricted class of cases where a liberal government may pre empt the voluntary choices of its citizens.