The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes.

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Published by New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

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255 Gutes Exemplar, Text sauber, keine Eintragungen. Good copy, clean text, no inscriptions. --- CONTENTS: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- -- INTRODUCTION: -- -- COMMON SENSE ABOUT RIGHTS -- -- 13 -- -- PART I: -- -- WHY A PENNILESS STATE CANNOT PROTECT RIGHTS -- -- Chapter One: All Rights Are Positive -- -- 35 -- -- Chapter Two: The Necessity of Government Performance -- -- 49 -- -- Chapter Three: No Property without Taxation -- -- 59 -- -- Chapter Four: Watchdogs Must Be Paid -- -- 77 -- -- PART II: -- -- WHY RIGHTS CANNOT BE ABSOLUTES -- -- Chapter Five: How Scarcity Affects Liberty -- -- 87 -- -- Chapter Six: How Rights Differ from Interests -- -- 99 -- -- Chapter Seven: Enforcing Rights Means -- -- Distributing Resources -- -- 113 -- -- Chapter Eight: Why Tradeoffs Are Inescapable -- -- 118 -- -- PART III: -- -- WHY RIGHTS ENTAIL RESPONSIBILITIES -- -- Chapter Nine: Have Rights Gone Too Far? -- -- 135 -- -- Chapter Ten: The Unselfishness of Rights -- -- Chapter Eleven: Rights as a Response to Moral Breakdown -- -- 162 -- -- PART IV: UNDERSTANDING RIGHTS AS BARGAINS -- -- Chapter Twelve: How Religious Liberty Promotes Stability -- -- 175 -- -- Chapter Thirteen: Rightsholders as Stakeholders -- -- 189 -- -- Chapter Fourteen: Welfare Rights and the Politics of Inclusion -- -- 204 -- -- CONCLUSION: THE PUBLIC CHARACTER OF PRIVATE FREEDOMS -- -- 220 -- -- APPENDIX: SOME NUMBERS ON RIGHTS AND THEIR COSTS -- -- 233 -- -- NOTES -- -- 237 -- -- INDEX. ISBN 9780393046700 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes.
Author
Holmes, Stephen and Cass R. Sunstein:
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New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication year
1999
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Hardcover
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English
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0393046702
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9780393046700
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