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Jurisprudence

1992

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From Libertarianism To Egalitarianism, Justin Schwartz Jan 1992

From Libertarianism To Egalitarianism, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

A standard natural rights argument for libertarianism is based on the labor theory of property: the idea that I own my self and my labor, and so if I "mix" my own labor with something previously unowned or to which I have a have a right, I come to own the thing with which I have mixed by labor. This initially intuitively attractive idea is at the basis of the theories of property and the role of government of John Locke and Robert Nozick. Locke saw and Nozick agreed that fairness to others requires a proviso: that I leave "enough …

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Charles E. Lindblom, Richard Adelstein Dec 1991

Charles E. Lindblom, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

An intellectual biography and review of the work of Charles E. Lindblom.

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Continuity And Change Redux: Market And State In American History, Richard Adelstein Dec 1991

Continuity And Change Redux: Market And State In American History, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A review of Jonathan Hughes, The Government Habit Redux (1991).

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The Protection Of Human Rights In Disintegrating States: A New Challenge, Bartram Brown Dec 1991

The Protection Of Human Rights In Disintegrating States: A New Challenge, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.

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The Myth Of Retributive Justice, Brian Slattery Dec 1991

The Myth Of Retributive Justice, Brian Slattery

Brian Slattery

In fairy tales, villains usually come to a bad end, snared in a trap of their own making, or visited with a disaster nicely suited to their particular villainy. Read a story of this kind to children and you will be struck by the profound satisfaction with which this predictable of events is greeted. Yet, if children cheer when the villain is done in, they are just as satisfied when the hero manages to get the villain by the throat but takes pity and spares him. These tales of retribution and mercy, even reduced to their barest bones, seem to …

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