Political philosophy, clearly : essays on freedom and fairness, property and equalities /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Jasay, Anthony, 1925-
Other Authors: Kliemt, Hartmut, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, [2010]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Government, bound or unbound?
  • Parrot talk : the repetition of common fallacies
  • When fair is not just and just is not fair
  • Fairness as justice
  • Justice, luck, liberty
  • Social justice examined : with a little help from Adam Smith
  • Pious lies : the justification of states and welfare states
  • To each his own, to each the same
  • Property and its enemies
  • Permission, prohibition, presumption : three p's in political philosophy
  • Between Colbert and Adam Smith
  • Liberalism, loose or strict
  • Freedoms, "rights," and rights
  • Freedom, from a mainly logical perspective
  • The concept of rule-bound collective choice and the idea of constitutional safeguards
  • The private enforcement of public rules
  • Antitrust and its "private" enforcement : a liberal perspective
  • Violence : the disease and the vaccine
  • The public interest and the usual suspects
  • Public goods and their spontaneous provision
  • Take or leave?
  • Property under "jungle law."