In All Fairness: Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity - Hardcover

Chris J. Coyne (editor), Michael C. Munger (editor) & Robert M. Whaples (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598133314 ISBN 13: 9781598133318

Publisher: Independent Institute, 2019

Synopsis

Inequality is an exceptionally beautiful thing. Or maybe it’s a terribly ugly thing. It depends on what is unequal and why it is unequal. Love it or loathe it, this collection is full of insights about the connections among fairness, liberty, equality and the quest for human dignity. With egalitarian sentiments and concerns about inequality on the rise, In All Fairness proves to be incredibly timely. In this collection of essays, authors challenge recent misbegotten egalitarian ideas, exposing the quicksand on which they rest and the self-serving interests they often promote. While each chapter offers unique insights, the overriding theme is that fairness must rest on a conception of humanity that recognizes the dignity of each person―a dignity that requires everyone to respect individual choices and voluntary transactions.

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About the Author

Christopher J. Coyne is the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Research Fellow for the Independent Institute and Co-Editor of The Independent Review, North American Editor for the Review of Austrian Economics and Book Review Editor at Public Choice. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, and has taught at the University of West Virginia. His books include Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails; After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy; Media, Development, and Institutional Change; Context Matters: Entrepreneurship and Institutions; and The Handbook on the Political Economy of War. Professor Coyne's scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Institutional Economics; American Journal of Economics and Sociology; European Journal of Law and Economics; Constitutional Political Economy; Review of Austrian Economics; The Independent Review; Economics of Peace and Security Journal; Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations; Indian Journal of Economics & Business; Journal of Intercultural Communication; Economic Journal; Foreign Policy Analysis; Journal of Law; Economics and Policy; Review of Political Economy; Case Western Reserve Law Review; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Institutions and Economic Development; NYU Journal of Law & Liberty; and Kyklos.

Michael C. Munger is Co-Editor of The Independent Review, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and Professor of Political Science, Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Duke University. He has been Staff Economist at the Federal Trade Commission, President of the Public Choice Society, and President of the North Carolina Political Science Association, and he has taught at Dartmouth College, University of Texas at Austin, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is past Editor of Public Choice, he has won three University-wide teaching awards (the Howard Johnson Award, an NAACP ""Image"" Award for teaching about race, and admission to the Bass Society of Teaching Fellows), and he is the recipient of the Duncan Black Prize for Best Paper in Public Choice. Professor Munger’s many scholarly articles have appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; The Independent Review; Journal of Politics; Journal of Law and Economics; Southern Economic Journal; and Economic Inquiry. His books include Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice; Analytical Politics, Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics; and Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices.

Robert M. Whaples is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Co-Editor and Managing Editor for The Independent Review, editor of the Independent book Pope Francis and the Caring Society, Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, Director and Book Review Editor for EH.NET, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Center on Culture and Civil Society at the Independent Institute. Professor Whaples is the recipient of both the Allen Nevins Prize and Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History from the Economic History Association. He is the editor of the books, Historical Perspectives on the American Economy (with Dianne Betts), Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History (with Jac Heckelman and John Moorhouse), The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History and The Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History (both with Randall Parker), and The Economic Crisis in Retrospect: Explanations by Great Economists (with E. Page West III). He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has also served as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Associate Editor of the Business Library Review, Chair of the Cliometric Society, and editor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independent Institute
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598133314
• ISBN 13: 9781598133318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250