This book provides a novel account of the public goods dilemma. The
author shows how the social contract, in its quest for fairness,
actually helps to breed the parasitic 'free riding' it is meant to
suppress. He also shows how, in the absence of taxation, many
public goods would be provided by spontaneous group co-operation.
This would, however, imply some degree of free riding. Unwilling to
tolerate such unfairness, co-operating groups would eventually
drift from voluntary to compulsory solutions, heedless of the fact
that this must bring back free riding with a vengeance. The author
argues that the perverse incentives created by the attempt to
render public provision assured and fair are a principal cause of
the poor functioning of organised society.
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