Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and His Surroundings

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Hardy Bouillon, Hartmut Kliemt
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 M01 1 - 198 páginas
Anthony de Jasay's work has been enormously influential, describing both a theoretical philosophical model for a stateless, liberal, free market order and offering analysis of and solutions to many of the technical economic problems associated with such a vision of society - most notably his work on the free rider and his return. In this book ten significant scholars in philosophy and political economy, including Nobel laureate in economics James Buchanan, pay tribute to the man and his work in a series of essays at once both respectful and critical.
Ordered Anarchy focuses on three fundamental questions of libertarian thinking. Which are the basic libertarian principles and how do rights and liberties relate to each other? Is order possible and durable in an anarchic or quasi-anarchic society, and it so, under which preconditions? How and to what extent are the pillars of politics, such as the constitution, institutions and government, detrimental or beneficial to an enduring free society?
While Narveson, Palmer and Bouillon focus on the first of these questions, the late Radnitzky and van Dun address the second. Benson, Holcombe and Kliemt provide answers to question number three, while Buchanan and Little highlight the role of Anthony de Jasay in this debate and the inspiration that his thinking has given to the authors of this volume.

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Rights Liberties and Obligations
7
Framing the Problem of Justice
21
Concepts of Order
59
Against Politics for Ordered Anarchy
93
Why Government?
147
Constitutional Optimism and Skepticism in Buchanan and Jasay
167
Anthony de JasayA Salute
185
Name Index
197
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