Anthony de Jasay
1925–2019
Nationality: Hungarian
Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond
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 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).
See the Liberty Matters online discussion on Anthony de Jasay and the Political Economy of the State
Read the Liberty Classic An Unavoidable Theory of the State from Econlib
Watch the OLL Video The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Anthony de Jasay
Quotes from Anthony de Jasay:
- Anthony de Jasay on the proliferation of predators and parasites
- Anthony de Jasay on the free rider problem
- Anthony de Jasay on should states have been invented
Titles from Anthony de Jasay:
- 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