Bøger af Brian Barry

Provides an analysis of the concept of political values having trade-off relations, and of the notion of the public interest.

In the past twenty years, social injustice has increased enormously in Britain and the United States, regardless of the party in power.

For over twenty years, Brian Barry has been writing on the foundations of a liberal-democratic constitutional order. Standing against the trend towards relativism in political philosophy, Barry offers a contemporary restatement of the Enlightenment idea that certain basic principles can validly claim the allegiance of every reasonable human being.

This work, analyzing the crossing of state boundaries by people and money, draws comparisons between the different ways that states treat inflowing money and people, demonstrating that states place many restrictions on the movements of people, but few on that of money.