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  • Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath

    Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Daniel Halliday, Thomas Gutmann ...
    Series series Law and Politics
    In every Western democracy today, inheritances have a very profound influence on people’s lives. This motivates renewed scholarship on inheritance law by philosophy and the legal sciences. The present volume aims to contribute to some ongoing areas of inquiry while also filling some gaps in research.It is organized in a highly interdisciplinary way. In the thirteen chapters of the book, written by ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia

    by Robert Nozick ...
    The foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement)First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has since become one of the defining texts in classic libertarian thought. Challenging and ultimately rejecting liberal, socialist, and conservative agendas, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Age of Responsibility

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy. ... Read more

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  • Individualism and Economic Order

    by F. A. Hayek ...
    "These essays . . . bring great learning and . . . intelligence to bear upon economic and social issues of central importance to our era." —Henry Hazlitt, NewsweekIn this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus ... Read more

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  • Conceptualizing Capitalism

    Institutions, Evolution, Future

    by Geoffrey M. Hodgson ...
    "Erudite and thought-provoking. . . . a stimulating, historically grounded exploration of the subject . . . rewarding." — Financial TimesA few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence?With Conceptualizing Capitalism, ... Read more

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  • The Normative Foundations of European Competition Law

    Assessing the Goals of Antitrust through the Lens of Legal Philosophy

    by Oles Andriychuk ...
    Does the competitive process constitute an autonomous societal value, or is it a means for achieving more reliable and measurable goals such as welfare, growth, integration, and innovation? This insightful book addresses this question from philosophical, legal and economic perspectives and demonstrates exactly why the competitive process is a value independent from other legitimate antitrust goals ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • On Global Justice

    by Mathias Risse ...
    Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps. Statists believe that principles of justice can only be held among those who share a state. Those who fall outside this realm are merely owed charity. Cosmopolitans, on the other hand, believe that justice applies equally among all human beings. On Global Justice shifts the terms of this debate and shows how both views are ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Inheritance of Wealth

    Justice, Equality, and the Right to Bequeath

    by Daniel Halliday ...
    Series series New Topics in Applied Philosophy
    Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. He engages with contemporary concerns about wealth inequality, class hierarchy, and taxation, while also drawing on the history of the egalitarian, utilitarian, and liberal traditions in political philosophy. He presents an egalitarian case for restricting inherited wealth, arguing that unrestricted ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Essays on Philosophy, Politics & Economics

    Integration & Common Research Projects

    Edited by Gerald Gaus, Christi Favor, Julian Lamont ...
    This volume brings together distinguished philosophers with interdisciplinary expertise to show how the resources of philosophy can be employed in the tasks of evaluating economics and fostering policy debates. Contributors offer analyses of basic ideas in economics, such as the notion of efficiency, "economic man", incentives, self-interest, and utility maximization. They discuss key concepts in ... Read more

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  • The Status of Law in World Society

    Meditations on the Role and Rule of Law

    by Friedrich Kratochwil ...
    Series Book 129 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Friedrich Kratochwil's book explores the role of law in the international arena and the key discourses surrounding it. It explains the increased importance of law for politics, from law-fare to the judicialization of politics, to human rights, and why traditional expectations of progress through law have led to disappointment. Providing an overview of the debates in legal theory, philosophy, ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • History of Economic Analysis

    by Joseph A. Schumpeter ...
    At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter was working on his monumental History of Economic Analysis. Unprecedented in scope, the book was to provide a complete history of economic theory from Ancient Greece to the end of the second world war. A major contribution to the history of ideas as well as to economics, History of Economic Analysis rapidly gained a reputation as a unique and ... Read more

    $265.00 USD

  • Natural Law, Economics and the Common Good

    Perspectives from Natural Law

    by Samuel Gregg ...
    Series Book 19 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and ongoing debt-related troubles there have been widespread calls to put banking and economic activity on a secure ethical foundation, either by regulation or through voluntary reform. In this volume a distinguished set of authors explore various economic, philosophical, and ethical ideas from historical, contemporary, and future-looking perspectives. ... Read more

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