The State by Anthony de Jasay
1998. (First published 1985.)
About the Book and Author
Preface
Author's Note
Introduction
1. The Capitalist State
1.1 Violence, Obedience, Preference
1.2 Title and Contract
1.3 The Contours of the Minimal State
1.4 If States Did Not Exist, Should They Be Invented
1.5 Inventing the State: The Social Contract
1.6 Inventing the State: The Instrument of Class Rule
1.7 Closing the Loop by False Consciousness
2. The Adversary State
2.1 Repression, Legitimacy and Consent
2.2 Taking Sides
2.3 Tinker's Licence
2.4 The Revealed Preference of Governments
2.5 Interpersonal Justice
2.6 Unintended Effects of Producing Interpersonal Utility and Justice
3. Democratic Values
3.1 Liberalism and Democracy
3.2 Through Equality to Utility
3.3 How Justice Overrides Contracts
3.4 Egalitarianism as Prudence
3.5 Love of Symmetry
3.6 Envy
4. Redistribution
4.1 Fixed Constitutions
4.2 Buying Consent
4.3 Addictive Redistribution
4.4 Rising Prices
4.5 Churning
4.5 Towards a Theory of the State
5. State Capitalism
5.1 What Is to Be Done
5.2 The State as Class
5.3 On the Plantation
Footnotes (Chapters 1-3)
Footnotes, continued (Chapters 4-5)
Notepad
Calculator
Search
Reference Links