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Intro -- Anthony de Jasay / Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick, (2015) -- Front Matter -- Half Title Page, p. i -- Frontispiece, p. iv -- Full Title Page, p. v -- Copyright Page, p. vi -- Contents, p. vii -- Preface, p. ix -- Part: Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick, p. 1 -- Part 1 Is Equal Superior?, p. 1 -- 1. Equalities, the Claims of Social Justice, and the Indian Rope Trick, p. 3 -- 2. Ranking Worlds by Words: A Case for Inequality, p. 33 -- 3. Against Poverty and the Misuse of Language That Helps to Perpetuate it, p. 41 -- 4. The "Justice" That Overrules the Rules of Justice, p. 49 -- Part 2 Inadvertent Surrender, Real Politics, and Rational Man, p. 55 -- 1. The Inadvertent Surrender: Spreading the State, Shrinking Liberty, p. 57 -- 2. Presumption of Liberty, p. 90 -- 3. On Rightsism, p. 93 -- 4. Human Rights and Wrongs: Misnomers, Illusions, Tensions, p. 105 -- Part 3 Contractarianism and Its Surroundings, p. 115 -- 1. Conduct and Contract, p. 117 -- 2. Ordered Anarchy and Contractarianism, p. 127 -- 3. Inspecting the Foundations of Liberalism, p. 133 -- Part 4 Errors and Omissions, p. 151 -- 1. Suckers, Punters, Pathbreakers: When Homo Oeconomicus is Selflessly Selfish, p. 153 -- 2. Who Will Guard the Guardians?, p. 164 -- 3. Can Opportunity be Equal? A Note on False Pretenses in Equality Discourse, p. 173 -- 4. Morals by Agreements, p. 178 -- Index, p. 181 -- Colophon, p. 196.

SummaryMost social scientists' views of conflict and cooperation in society are shaped by very elementary, one‐off, two by two symmetric simultaneous move games like prisoner's dilemma, chicken, assurance or stag hunt. We think that this diet of examples leads to biased accounts in particular of distributional conflict, and therefore suggest that asymmetry in payoffs and move structure be taken into account systematically. In this paper a new paradigm of asymmetric games to study basic distributional conflicts is introduced, illustrated numerically and discussed theoretically. The results of exploratory experiments on the empirical side of the matter are also reported.