The Limits of Liberty
Title | The Limits of Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Buchanan |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780226078205 |
"The Limits of Liberty is concerned mainly with two topics. One is an attempt to construct a new contractarian theory of the state, and the other deals with its legitimate limits. The latter is a matter of great practical importance and is of no small significance from the standpoint of political philosophy."—Scott Gordon, Journal of Political Economy James Buchanan offers a strikingly innovative approach to a pervasive problem of social philosophy. The problem is one of the classic paradoxes concerning man's freedom in society: in order to protect individual freedom, the state must restrict each person's right to act. Employing the techniques of modern economic analysis, Professor Buchanan reveals the conceptual basis of an individual's social rights by examining the evolution and development of these rights out of presocial conditions.
The Limits of Liberty
Title | The Limits of Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Maldwyn Allen Jones |
Publisher | Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A history of America between the years 1607 and 1980.
The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan
Title | The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Buchanan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780865972520 |
An index to the series "The Collected works of James M. Buchanan."
Hayek’s Market Republicanism
Title | Hayek’s Market Republicanism PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Irving |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2019-11-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0429750730 |
Friedrich Hayek was the 20th century’s most significant free market theorist. Over the course of his long career he developed an analysis of the danger that state power can pose to individual liberty. In rejecting much of the liberal tradition’s concern for social justice and democratic participation, Hayek would help clear away many intellectual obstacles to the emergence of neoliberalism in the last quarter of the 20th century. At the core of this book is a new interpretation of Hayek, one that regards him as an exponent of a neo-Roman conception of liberty and interprets his work as a form of ‘market republicanism’. It examines the contemporary context in which Hayek wrote, and places his writing in the long republican intellectual tradition. Hayek’s Market Republicanism will be of interest to advanced students and researchers across the history of economic thought, the history of political thought, political economy and political philosophy.
The Limits of Liberty
Title | The Limits of Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | James David Nichols |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2018-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1496207238 |
The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of the "mobile peoples" who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the many top-down connotations that borders carry, noting that the state cannot entirely dominate the process of boundary marking. Even though there were many efforts on the part of the United States and Mexico to define the new international border as a limit, mobile peoples continued to transgress the border and cross it with impunity. Transborder migrants reimagined the dividing line as a gateway to opportunity rather than as a fence limiting their movement. Runaway slaves, Mexican debt peones, and seminomadic Native Americans saw liberty on the other side of the line and crossed in search of greater opportunity. In doing so they devised their own border epistemology that clashed with official understandings of the boundary. These divergent understandings resulted in violence with the crossing of vigilantes, soldiers, and militias in search of fugitives and runaways. The Limits of Liberty explores how the border attracted migrants from both sides and considers border-crossers together, whereas most treatments thus far have considered discrete social groups along the border. Mining Mexican archival sources, Nichols is one of the first scholars to explore the nuance of negotiation that took place between the state and mobile peoples in the formation of borders.
Markets without Limits
Title | Markets without Limits PDF eBook |
Author | Jason F. Brennan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2015-08-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317815629 |
May you sell your vote? May you sell your kidney? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children? May spouses pay each other to watch the kids, do the dishes, or have sex? Should we allow the rich to genetically engineer gifted, beautiful children? Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural disasters? Most people shudder at the thought. To put some goods and services for sale offends human dignity. If everything is commodified, then nothing is sacred. The market corrodes our character. Or so most people say. In Markets without Limits, Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski give markets a fair hearing. The market does not introduce wrongness where there was not any previously. Thus, the authors claim, the question of what rightfully may be bought and sold has a simple answer: if you may do it for free, you may do it for money. Contrary to the conservative consensus, they claim there are no inherent limits to what can be bought and sold, but only restrictions on how we buy and sell.
Rights at Risk
Title | Rights at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Shipler |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0307594866 |
A Pulitzer Prize winner delivers an enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.