Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order

ISBN-13: 9780415513654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 254 str.

Anthony De Jasay

Opis

Drawing together Jasay's work over the past decade, this volume challenges the morality of governmental collective decision making. The author argues that it is not different political systems that are at fault, but the nature of politics itself.

Recenzje

'De Jasay - economist, one-time businessman, and political philosopher - has argued in a series of powerful books (notably The State and the just-published Against Politics that democracies are vulnerable to majoritarian tyranny in which the majority redistributes to itself through the state the possessions of the rest.' - Patrick Mitford, Daily Telegraph

Spis treści

Introduction Part I Excuses 1 Self-contradictory contractarianism 2 Is limited government possible? 3 Frogs’ legs, shared ends, and the rationality of politics 4 Values and the social order 5 The twistable is not testable: reflexions on the political thought of Karl Popper 6 Hayek: some missing pieces 7 The rule of forces, the force of rules Part II Emergent solutions 8 Before resorting to politics 9 Conventions: some thoughts on the economics of ordered anarchy 10 The glass is half-full 11 Liberties, rights, and the standing of groups

O autorze

Anthony de Jasay is also the author of Choice, Contract, Consent (1991), Social Contract, Free Ride (1989), and The State (1985).