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Anthony de Jasay
1925 - —
Nationality:
Hungarian
Historical Period:
The 20th Century and Beyond
Groups
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).
Titles:
- Author: BOLL 15: Jasay, "Liberalism and Democracy" (1985)
- Author: The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Anthony de Jasay
- Author: Justice and Its Surroundings
- Author: Political Economy, Concisely
- Author: Social Contract, Free Ride: A Study of the Public Goods Problem
- Author: The State
Quotations:
- Jasay on the superiority of "spontaneous conventions" over "legal frameworks" (2007)
- Anthony de Jasay on the free rider problem (2008)
- Anthony de Jasay asks whether states should be invented if they did not already exist (1985)
- Anthony de Jasay on the proliferation of predators and parasites in the modern state (1998)