Quotes by Anthony de Jasay
1925 – 2019
Anthony de Jasay was 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 authored 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).
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Law
Jasay on the superiority of “spontaneous conventions” over “legal frameworks” (2007)
Economics
Anthony de Jasay on the free rider problem (2008)
The State
Anthony de Jasay asks whether states should be invented if they did not already exist (1985)
The State
Anthony de Jasay on the proliferation of predators and parasites in the modern state (1998)