Social Contract, Free Ride: A Study of the Public-Goods Problem by Anthony De Jasay

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

Anthony De Jasay

288 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

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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 ...

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