The Shaftesbury Papers series – serie
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Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy
Inbunden, 1993
2483 kr
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Property rights lie at the heart of the economic success of any economy and the extent to which its citizens enjoy economic freedom. At a time when Eastern Europe is breaking free from the yoke of collectivist-socialist ideas, this book presents essays by four political economists evaluating a …
PARCHMENT, GUNS AND CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Classical Liberalism, Public Choice and Constitutional Democracy
Häftad, 1993
277 kr
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In this far-reaching and insightful monograph, Richard Wagner exposes the failure of the United States constitution to overcome the tyranny of the majority so feared by the Founding Fathers. Recognising that to the extent a written parchment is enforceable, it is through the construction of a …
RENT SEEKING
Häftad, 1993
277 kr
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This is a succinct but comprehensive account of the research programme in rent-seeking launched in 1967 by Gordon Tullock’s argument that the availability of monopoly rents through government encourages self-seeking individuals to waste economic resources in competitive bidding for those rents. …
Adam Smith into the Twenty First Century
Häftad, 1996
285 kr
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Adam Smith into the Twenty-First Century examines how Smith’s deliberations on constitutional economics can now be tested by current empirical work in the social sciences.Edwin West shows how Smith’s scepticism about the proposition that democracy is conducive to economic growth is supported by …
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MINIMAL STATE
Inbunden, 1996
2239 kr
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This major book brings together four essays which rigorously defend classical liberal philosophy and present a convincing justification of the minimal state.In Before Resorting to Politics, the first essay, Anthony de Jasay rejects political solutions, seeks to de-politicise society and provides an …
Classical Liberalism in the Age of Post Communism
Av Norman Barry
Häftad, 1996
277 kr
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Classical Liberalism in the Age of Post-Communism reconstructs the theory of classical liberalism as a unified doctrine that encompasses political economy, jurisprudence and social philosophy. Norman Barry’s essay provides explanations of the market economy, entrepreneurship, property rights theory …
Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy
Häftad, 1995
285 kr
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In Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy, Richard E. Wagner offers an approach to welfare economics and economic policy appropriate for a classically liberal society.Professor Wagner explains how welfare economics has been unable to fulfil the aspirations of its advocates because it assumes that …
Lessons for Citizens of a New Democracy
Häftad, 1998
277 kr
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Lessons for Citizens of a New Democracy provides an authoritative analysis of the foundations of democracy, with relation to the demise of communist ideology. This significant contribution by a leading expert details the tentative process towards democracy in the successor states of the former …
Ethnic Diversity, Liberty and the State
The African Dilemma
Häftad, 1998
277 kr
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Ethnic Diversity, Liberty and the State is an insightful study of highly centralized, unitary systems of government and the breakdown of civil society in sub-Saharan Africa. The author argues persuasively that institutional reform involving decentralization and federalism can better accommodate …
Liberalism Defended
The Challenge of Post-Modernity
Av Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J. Den Uyl
Häftad, 1998
277 kr
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Liberalism is today under serious intellectual attack. It is said to undermine its own principles, to have lost any strong claims to universal validity, and to foster injustice and inhumanity. Liberalism is associated with Enlightenment thought and is considered by some as an outmoded political …
Promises, Promises
Contracts in Russia and other Post-Communist Economies
Häftad, 1998
277 kr
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Promises, Promises examines from a libertarian perspective, the differing methods and levels of success of adapting contract law in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and especially Russia in the wake of political change. The author analyses the roles of government power and policy, opportunism …
classical liberalism and civil society
Inbunden, 1998
2823 kr
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This impressive book brings together four essays, which along with an insightful introduction from Charles Rowley, provide a robust defence of the concept of classical liberalism in modern 'civil' society. In the first essay, Douglas Rasmussen and Douglas Uyl discuss the basic approaches and …
Before Resorting to Politics
Häftad, 1996
277 kr
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Before Resorting to Politics is an original account of liberty and property which questions the morality and utility of political solutions and seeks to de-politicise society. Anthony de Jasay shows how politics tacitly claims that it is better if one part of society is made to gain at the expense …
