Social justice and the indian rope trick

Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick presents Anthony de Jasay's writings on liberalism from 2008 to 2012, continuing his Political Philosophy, Clearly and serving as a companion to Economic Sense and Nonsense. The present volume focuses on "the careless use, the misuse, and ...

Political economy, concisely

essays on policy that does not work and markets that do

Written for the general reader and specialist alike, the essays collected here articulate a convincing classical liberal view of the world, with a no-nonsense approach to modern economic theory. Many of the articles are collected here for the first time in book form. Jasay's ...

Social contract, free ride

a study of the public-goods problem

Access to public goods is free either because it would be too costly to exclude "nonpaying customers" from such access (e.g., pollution control) or because it would be morally repugnant to do so (children's playgrounds). The received wisdom in economics has long been ...