Front Page Authors (by Period) Anthony de Jasay

Anthony de Jasay

1925 - —

About the Author

Anthony de Jasay is an Anglo-Hungarian economist living in France. He trained as an economist in Western Australia and then at Oxford University. He worked in finance in Paris before retiring and becoming an independent scholar. Anthony de Jasay is the author of: The State (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998); Social Contract, Free Ride: A Study of the Public Goods Question (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), and Justice and its Surroundings (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002).

In The Library:

• author: The Best of the OLL No. 15: Anthony de Jasay, “Liberalism and Democracy” (1985) (2013)
• author: The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Anthony de Jasay (2000)
• author: Justice and Its Surroundings (2002)
• author: Political Economy, Concisely: Essays on Policy that does not work and Markets that do (2009)
• author: The State (1985)

Quotations:

• Jasay on the superiority of “spontaneous conventions” over “legal frameworks” (2007) (7 December, 2012)