Power & market: government and the economy

Title Page......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface to the Fourth Edition......Page 10
1.Defense Services on the Free Market......Page 16
1.Types of Intervention......Page 26
2.Direct Effects of Intervention on Utility......Page 30
1.Price Control......Page 44
2.Product Control: Prohibition......Page 55
3.Product Control: Grant of Monopolistic Privilege......Page 58
1.Introduction: Government Revenues and Expenditures......Page 118
2.The Burdens and Benefits of Taxation and Expenditures......Page 120
3.The Incidence and Effects of Taxation, part I......Page 125
4.The Incidence and Effects of Taxation, part II......Page 152
5. The Incidence and Effects of Taxation, part III......Page 160
6.The Incidence and Effects of Taxation, part IV......Page 165
7.Canons of \"Justice\" in Taxation......Page 183
5.Binary Intervention: Government Expenditures......Page 222
1.Government Subsidies: Transfer Payments......Page 223
2.Resource-Using Activies: Government Ownership versus Private Ownership......Page 228
3.Resource-Using Activies: Sociailism......Page 241
4.The Myth of \"Public\" Ownership......Page 245
5.Democracy......Page 248
1. Introduction......Page 266
2.Knowledge of Self-Interest......Page 269
3.The Problem of Immoral Choices......Page 272
4.The Morality of Human Nature......Page 275
5.The Impossibility of Equality......Page 277
6.The Problem of Security......Page 282
7.Alleged Joys of Social Status......Page 284
8.Charity and Poverty......Page 287
9.The Charge of \"Selfish Materialism\"......Page 290
10. Back to the Jungle?......Page 293
11.Power and Coercion......Page 295
12.The Problem of Luck......Page 302
14.Over- and Underdevelopments......Page 303
15.The State and the Nature of Man......Page 304
16.Human Rights and Property Rights......Page 306
1.Economics: Its Nature and Its Uses......Page 326
2.Implicit Moralizing: The Failure of Welfare Economics......Page 329
3.Economics and Social Ethics......Page 332
4.The Market Principle and the Hegemonic Principle......Page 334
Index......Page 340