Social Contract, Free Ride "A Study of the Public-Goods Problem"

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ISBN:9780865977013
Editorial: Liberty Fund Inc.
Fecha de la edición:2008
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Nº Pág.:276
Idiomas:Ingles

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/ Historia del Pensamiento Económico

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.

Introduction 1
Pt. 1 The Surrender of Autonomy
1 Commitment to Co-operation 13
2 Promise, Performance, and Enforcement 25
3 State-of-Nature Co-ordination 44
4 Social Contract 75
5 Social Choice 102
Pt. 2 Publicness: Solution and Result
6 The Foundations of Voluntariness 133
7 Constructive Risk 166
8 An Ethics Turnpike 192
9 The Unfairness of Anarchy 218
10 The Return of the Free Rider 233
Works Cited 261
Index 265