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What is Private Means, Public Ends : Voluntarism vs. Coercion about?

This collection of essays daringly challenges the perceived wisdom of government necessity by pointing to instances of the free market fulfilling these functions. The book seeks to illustrate that there are, inevitably, many intrinsic problems with governmental attempts to plan and implement these functions. Moreover, governments operate on the leverage of coercion -- whether that be in the form of laws or taxation. These essays suggest that the private alternatives not only tend to work better at achieving the desired end, but they also serve to reintroduce the much diminished principle upon which civil society is namely voluntary cooperation between free men.

Author

J. Wilson Mixon, Jr

Publisher

Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572460249

Subjects

Management, History, Political Science