Bargaining with the State

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Bargaining with the State is written by Richard Allen Epstein and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 069104273X (ISBN 10) and 9780691042732 (ISBN 13).

"In Takings, Epstein argued that the takings clause was crafted to ensure to the extent possible that no individuals were net losers from government programs of taxation or regulation. Today in Bargaining with the State, he turns to the fair distribution of the gains from desirable government programs and the implicit peril to individual liberty and social welfare when government attaches strings to persons receiving its benefits. In so doing he offers a rigorous solution to the so-called paradox of unconstitutional conditions: why people bargaining with the state need not always take the bitter with the sweet, but may sometimes keep the government benefit while cutting the government string.".