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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is an exceptionally well-developed and well-conceived anthology. It offers wide coverage, contains both foundational and applied articles, and includes more technical and more 'fun' work. It's something that an instructor could use in introductory and also advanced courses. The readings in this anthology are at the core of what it means to be an educated person."--Jason Brennan, Georgetown University "Not simply an excellent Philosophy, Politics, and Economics reader, this anthology would also be the only one suitable for a gateway PPE course. For someone who doesn't want to design his or her syllabus from scratch, this reader offers a fantastic ready-made one."--Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
Table of ContentsPreface: Introduction: 1. POLITICAL AUTHORITY Plato, Crito Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan John Locke, Popular Basis of Political Authority David Hume, Of the Original Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract 2. RATIONAL CHOICE Gary Becker, The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior David Schmidtz, Reasons for Altruism David Gauthier, Rationality: Maximization Constrained Gregory Kavka, The Toxin Puzzle 3. GAME THEORY Simon Blackburn, Game Theory and Rational Choice Thomas Schelling, Dynamic Models of Segregation Gerry Mackie, Ending Foot Binding and Infibulation: A Convention Account Geoffrey Brennan and Gordon Tullock, An Economic Theory of Military Tactics: Methodological Individualism at War 4. PROPERTY John Locke, Of Property David Hume, Of Justice and Property Karl Marx, Capital, "Primitive Accumulation" Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice David Schmidtz, The Institution of Property 5. MARKETS Market Advantages Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, "Of the Division of Labor" Friedrich Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society Leonard Read, I, Pencil Market Fairness St. Thomas Aquinas, Sins Committed in Buying and Selling John Locke, What is a Fair Price? Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, "Of the Expences of the Sovereign" Market Failures Tyler Cowen, Public Goods Jonathan Anomaly, Public Goods and Government Action David Friedman, Market Failures 6. COLLECTIVE ACTION Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action Jean Hampton, Free Rider Problems in the Production of Collective Goods Elinor Ostrom, Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action 7. JUSTICE John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism John Rawls, A Theory of Justice Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia Gerald Cohen, Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: How Patterns Preserve Liberty 8. EQUALITY Harry Frankfurt, Equality as a Moral Ideal Richard Arneson, Equality and Equal Opportunity for Welfare Amartya Sen, Equality of What? Robert Nozick, Equality of Opportunity Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron 9. COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS Steven Kelman, An Ethical Critique of Cost-Benefit Analysis Elizabeth Anderson, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Safety, and Environmental Quality David Schmidtz, A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis 10. PUBLIC CHOICE James Buchanan, Public Choice: Politics without Romance Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy Michael Munger, Rent-Seek and You Will Find James Buchanan, How Can Constitutions Be Designed So That Politicians Who Seek to Serve "Public Interest" Can Survive and Prosper? Michael Huemer, Why People Are Irrational about Politics 11. REASONS TO VOTE Geoffrey Brennan and Loren Lomasky, Is There a Duty to Vote? Jason Brennan, Polluting the Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote Geoffrey Brennan and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Voting and Causal Responsibility 12. LIBERTY AND PATERNALISM John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Gerald Dworkin, Paternalism Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron 13. MARKETS ON THE MARGIN Sex Martha Nussbaum, Whether from Reason or Prejudice: Taking Money for Bodily Services David Friedman, Marriage, Sex and Babies Drugs Michael Huemer, America's Unjust Drug War Peter de Marneffe, Against the Legalization of Drugs Jeffrey Miron, The Economics of Drug Prohibition and Drug Legalization Organs Arthur Caplan, Organ Transplantation Gerald Dworkin, Markets and Morals: The Case for Organ Sales Sweatshops Benjamin Powell and Matt Zwolinski, The Ethical and Economic Case Against Sweatshop Labor: A Critical Assessment Mathew Coakley and Michael Kates, The Ethical and Economic Case for Sweatshop Regulation Price Gouging Michael Munger, They Clapped: Can Price Gouging Laws Prohibit Scarcity? Jeremy Snyder, What's the Matter with Price Gouging? Matt Zwolinski, Price Gouging, Non-Worseness, and Distributive Justice
