Choice, Contract, Consent, in restating liberalism, finds its rock-bottom foundations in six first principles that are either self-evident, or readily acceptable to bona fide reason. These simple, relatively undemanding principles dictate the outline of a stable political doctrine. The doctrine is strict, in that it confines the state to mandatory tasks, instead of allowing it discretionary latitude within rules. This is a loose constraint because collective choice can choose its own rules. Political doctrine informs practical politics. In politics, collective choice replace and often overrides individual choice. For this to be legitimate, it does not suffice to respect procedures, such as those demanded by democracy. Collective choice to be morally justified, needs substantive legitimacy too. Choice, Contract, Consent develops the conditions that substantive legitimacy must meet and delineates the restricted class of cases where a liberal government may pre empt the voluntary choices of its citizens.

Choice, Contract, Consent: A Restatement of Liberalism

Politics & Social Sciences

De Jasay, Anthony

Politics & Government

Inst of Economic Affairs

Self-Help was one of the great success stories of Victorian publishing. It sold twenty thousand copies in the year of its publication and nearly a quarter of a million by the end of the century. It was translated into many languages, including Japanese. In the context of the current debate about the de-moralising effects of the welfare state, Self-Help seems as relevant as the day it was published. After well-meaning politicians from all three parties have tested state welfare to destruction, Smiles offers a surer basis for a more enduring consensus.

Self-Help

Business & Money

Smiles, Samuel

Economics

Who Needs Parents?: The Effects of Childcare & Early Education on Children in Britain & the U. S. A.

Morgan, Patricia

Parenting & Relationships

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

Regulating Financial Markets: A Critique and Some Proposals (Hobart Paper)

Benston, George J.

The Dilemma of Democracy: The Political Economics of Over-Government (Hobart Paper, 136)

Seldon, Arthur

Understanding the Process of Economic Change (Paper 106)

North, Douglass C.

Professor Jonathan Sacks' 1988 IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture on Morals and Markets was generally regarded as one of the most stimulating contributions to this subject in recent years. The institute therefore commissioned three other distinguished authors to write commentaries on Professor Sacks' paper. The four papers are published in this volume, together with an Afterword by Professor Sacks.

Morals and Markets: Seventh Annual Hayek Memorial Lecture (IEA Occasional Paper 108)

SACKS, JONATHAN

Novak, Michael

Davidson, Robert

Barry, Norman

Business Culture

Benefit Dependency: How Welfare Undermines Independence (The Iea Health & Welfare Unit Choice in Welfare Series Number 41)

GREEN, David G.

The changes which are occurring in family life are of unprecedented magnitude and speed. The 'traditional' family, headed by a married couple, is still in the majority, but it is a shrinking majority and, because the movement away from marriage is most noticeable in younger age-groups, we can expect the process of change to intensify in the short term.Under the editorship of Miriam David, Professor and Dean of Research at the London Institute, two respected commentators examine the raw data from their different perspectives. Kathleen Kiernan, a co-director of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, argues for family policies which are based on the recognition of parenthood rather than marriage. Patricia Morgan, Senior Research Fellow in the family at the IEA, asks whether any culture can survive the disintegration of the central institution which transmits the values which hold it together.

The Fragmenting Family: Does It Matter? (Choice in Welfare)

Kiernan, Kathleen

Haskey, John

In this volume leading social historians examine the 'mixed economy of welfare' that typified the era Before Beveridge. They present a picture of a complex web of interlocking institutions, involving, at the most basic level, family and neighbours, then the formal voluntary sector, which embraced both charitable and mutual aid bodies, together with services delivered by central and local government and the commercial market.This 'mixed economy of welfare' has once again become an important part of the contemporary policy maker's agenda. As a consequence, this collection of historical essays has a direct bearing on one of the most important debates of the present time.

Before Beveridge - Welfare Before the Welfare State (Choice in Welfare 47)

History

Lewis, Jane

Harris, José

Thane, Pat

Whiteside, Noel

Green, David A.

Vincent, A. W.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

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