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      Social Contract, Free Ride

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      This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.

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      The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as a design element in Liberty Fund books is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.

      © 1989 by Liberty Fund, Inc. Originally published in 1989 by Oxford University Press. Published in 2008 by Liberty Fund, Inc.

      This eBook edition published in 2012.

      eBook ISBN: E-PUB 978-1-61487-218-4

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      Contents

       3. State-of-Nature Co-ordination

       Co-ordination, Pure and Non-pure

       Approaching Strangers

       Pure Co-ordination by Contract

       Inequality of Character

       Not Rocking the Boat

       The Hardest Case

       State-of-Nature Public Goods: The Standard Approach

       Reliance on Enforcement

       4. Social Contract

       Institutional Darwinism

       Reconciliation

       Restricted Domain: The Hobbesian Asymmetry

       Restricted Domain: The Minimal State

       5. Social Choice

       Unrestricted Domain

       Enforcement of Domain-Restriction

       Non-fatuousness

       Predisposed Rules

       Agility and Sluggishness

       Equiprobability I

       Accepting Command where Contract Fails

       Appendix: Redistribution

       PART TWO — PUBLICNESS: SOLUTION AND RESULT

       6. The Foundations of Voluntariness

       Exclusion

       Free Riders or Suckers All

       Stacked, Interlocking, and Straddle Rankings

       No Free Riders, No Suckers

       The Straddle Ranking: A Necessary Condition

       The Straddle Ranking: A Sufficient Condition

       Equiprobability II

       7. Constructive Risk

       All or None

       “Uncertainty”

       A Spontaneous Solution through Risk

       All Cretans Are Not Liars

       Inconsistent Expectations

       Appendix: Straddle or Chicken

       8. An Ethics Turnpike

       Homo Oeconomicus

       Three Grades of Rationality

       Public-Goods Forks

       9. The Unfairness of Anarchy

       Abuse, Outrage, Envy

       The End of Anarchy

       10. The Return of the Free Rider

       Reverse Contribution

       Pooling

       The Game of “Ask”

      

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