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| Title: | Prohibitions
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| Series: | (Readings Series) |
| Author: | John Meadowcroft (ed) |
| ISBN: | 0255365853 : 9780255365857 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 130x200mm |
| Pages: | 270 |
| Weight: | .348 Kg. |
| Published: | Institute of Economic Affairs - March 2008 |
| List Price: | 12.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | ECONOMICS |
This collection of essays examines those areas where the freedom of individual men and women to voluntarily engage in mutually advantageous exchanges is prohibited or restricted by government. The authors critically examine the economic and philosophical rationale for the prohibition of alcohol, the sale of body parts, medicinal drugs, pornography, prostitution, recreational drugs, tobacco and trade in endangered species, among other topics.
Introduction; Prohibitions and economics: an overview; Recreational drugs; Boxing; Firearms; Advertising; Pornography; Medical drugs and devices; Prostitution; Introduction; Gambling; Human body parts for transplantation; Alcohol.
