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Item Length: 6.1 in Number of Pages: 330 Pages Author: Anthony De Jasay ISBN: 9780865971714 Language: English Publication Year: 1998 Subject: History & Theory, Public Policy / Social Policy, Economics / Theory Series: The Collected Papers of Anthony De Jasay Ser. Format: Trade Paperback Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics Type: Textbook Publisher: Liberty Fund, Incorporated Item Weight: 20.1 Oz Item Width: 9.1 in Publication Name: State width: 9.1 in Book Title: State

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State, Paperback by De-Jasay, Anthony, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US. The results include a “devastating critique of the absurdities of modern welfare economics.”. Can, Jasay wonders, this seemingly inexorable expansion of the state be stopped?. State, Paperback by De-Jasay, Anthony, ISBN 0865971714, ISBN-13 9780865971714, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The State is a brilliant analysis of modern political arrangements that views the state as acting in its own interest contrary to the interests of individuals and even of an entire society. As Nobel laureate James Buchanan has observed, Jasay subjects the state to a “solid, foundational analysis, grounded in an understanding of economic theory, informed by political philosophy and a deep sense of history.” The results include a “devastating critique of the absurdities of modern welfare economics.” Jasay traces the logical and historical progression of the state from a modest-sized protector of life and property through its development into what he believes to be an “agile seducer of democratic majorities, to the welfare-dispensing drudge that it is today.” Can, Jasay wonders, this seemingly inexorable expansion of the state be stopped? Or “is the rational next step [for the state] a totalitarian enhancement of its power?”