A Theory of Justice
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Brian Barry
Cardinal utility
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Causality
Coase theorem
Consequentialism
Consideration
Cost-benefit analysis
Criticism
De facto
Defection
Deontological ethics
Determinacy
Deterrence (legal)
Distributive justice
Egalitarianism
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Game Theory
Henry Sidgwick
Income
Inference
Injunction
Institution
Jeremy Bentham
Justice as Fairness
Labor theory of value
Law and economics
Morality
Normative
Our Choice
Pareto efficiency
Pareto principle
Philosopher
Philosophy
Political philosophy
Presumption
Prima facie
Primary goods
Principle
Prisoner's dilemma
Rational choice theory
Rationality
Regime
Regulation
Result
Robert Nozick
Self-interest
Seminar
Skepticism
Social contract
Social order
Social theory
State of affairs (sociology)
State of nature
Status quo
Theory
Thomas Hobbes
Thought
Tort
Trade-off
Transaction cost
Utilitarianism
Utility
Vaccination
Value theory
Veil of ignorance
Voluntary exchange
Wealth
Welfare
Welfarism
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691123929
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Dec 2005
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In simple action theory, when people choose between courses of action, they know what the outcome will be. When an individual is making a choice "against nature," such as switching on a light, that assumption may hold true. But in strategic interaction outcomes, indeterminacy is pervasive and often intractable. Whether one is choosing for oneself or making a choice about a policy matter, it is usually possible only to make a guess about the outcome, one based on anticipating what other actors will do. In this book Russell Hardin asserts, in his characteristically clear and uncompromising prose, "Indeterminacy in contexts of strategic interaction ...Is an issue that is constantly swept under the rug because it is often disruptive to pristine social theory. But the theory is fake: the indeterminacy is real."
In the course of the book, Hardin thus outlines the various ways in which theorists from Hobbes to Rawls have gone wrong in denying or ignoring indeterminacy, and suggests how social theories would be enhanced--and how certain problems could be resolved effectively or successfully--if they assumed from the beginning that indeterminacy was the normal state of affairs, not the exception. Representing a bold challenge to widely held theoretical assumptions and habits of thought, Indeterminacy and Society will be debated across a range of fields including politics, law, philosophy, economics, and business management.
Russell Hardin is Professor of Politics at New York University. He is the author of numerous books including "One for All" (Princeton), "Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy", and "Morality within the Limits of Reason".
