Anthony de Jasay

09/02/2022

Quel est le but de l'État, selon Anthony de Jasay ? Redécouvrez l'économiste et philosophe, décédé en 2019 à l'âge de 94 ans.

20/07/2021

"Though he shares Buchanan’s libertarian end of controlling and restricting the sphere of state action, Jasay does not think that propagating contractarianism is conducive to that end. Buchanan is a reluctant moral archist who believes that fundamental government coercion can be justified by the consent of the governed while Jasay is a moral anarchist in that he believes that government coercion cannot be justified by the voluntary consent of the governed. Contrary to political anarchists, Jasay acknowledges that anarchical violence against a particular state order will merely give rise to another coercive state order rather than to a situation with no state at all. Contrary to moral archists Jasay thinks that denying the moral legitimacy of the state is morally and politically a better defense of liberty than contractarianism."

In a 2015 discussion at Liberty Matters, I commented on Anthony de Jasay’s work under the title “tricks or treats”. Looking back, it seems to me that I could have used the metaphorical distinction of tricks and treats to point out more clearly what unites and what separates the libertarianism ...

15/10/2020

Anthony de Jasay (1925-2019) https://buff.ly/33WmSc9

His aspirations for contributions to the formal, analytic side of political philosophy were much more ambitious than those of either Frédéric Bastiat or H.L. Mencken.

16/07/2019

Can one be an anarchist conservative? Or a conservative anarchist? One economist-philosopher may have pulled it off.

04/06/2019

Anthony de Jasay, a noted scholar and long-time friend of Liberty Fund, died January 23, 2019. He had been incapacitated by a stroke a few weeks earlier but tried to remain active until the end. I last heard from him on January 4, through his very brave wife Isabelle. Isabelle also telephoned me at....

26/01/2019

Classical liberalism has lost a great thinker. Anthony de Jasay died yesterday in Normandy at the age of 94 after a serious illness.

Anthony de Jasay verstorben | Der klassische Liberalismus hat einen grossen Denker verloren. Anthony de Jasay ist gestern nach schwerer Krankheit im Alter von 94 Jahren in der Normandie verstorben ...

04/06/2018

New article about Anthony de Jasay's "The State" by Pierre Lemieux.

Anthony de Jasay is an economist born in Hungary, educated in Australia and England (Oxford), and living in France. He does not have a Ph.D. and is affiliated with no university, which makes him a rarity from the viewpoint of the very structured U.S. academic world. He pursued his academic interests...

15/07/2016

Except for medicine—which dates back to the 10th century in Salerno—early institutions of higher learning in Europe used to consist of philosophy,...

31/07/2015

A new spanish translation:

Los subproductos típicos del socialismo auténtico son dos. Primero, la necesidad de una aplicación estricta genera un sistema político autoritario que debe realizar grandes esfuerzos para legitimarse y deja poco espacio para los atavíos democráticos. Segundo, incluso bajo un mando muy rigurosamente autoritario, el mecanismo lleva a cabo pobremente su propósito establecido.

"Propiedad, agencia, socialismo."

http://tupropiedadprivada.blogspot.com/2015/07/anthony-de-jasay-propiedad-agencia.html

03/12/2014

New column. A critique of Anti-trust Law.

"Economies of scale, brand reliability, or proprietary technology cease to be rewarded. The regulator, in reality a participant in the game, has his gain. His good intention of enforcing a merely decent return on capital is fulfilled. Every body else loses, including one further player, namely the economy as a whole. It is pushed a bit further down the road to low rewards to investment, stable business, and the menace of stagnation. "

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2014/Jasayzeal.html

Another important bias built into the regulatory mission is what we might call Damage Dominance. If there is a very small probability of a great material damage or intangible harm, and the risk can be averted at a cost of some regulation, always choose the regulation and never conjecture that the tr…