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  • Anthony de Jasay, The State
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Details
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Author's Note
  • The State
  • Introduction, p. 1
  • 1. The Capitalist State, p. 16
  • Violence, Obedience, Preference, p. 16
  • Title and Contract, p. 22
  • The Contours of the Minimal State, p. 30
  • If States Did Not Exist, Should They Be Invented?, p. 35
  • Inventing the State: The Social Contract, p. 38
  • Inventing the State: The Instrument of Class Rule, p. 52
  • Closing the Loop by False Consciousness, p. 65
  • 2. The Adversary State, p. 73
  • Repression, Legitimacy and Consent, p. 73 Taking Sides, p. 85
  • Tinker's License, p. 96
  • The Revealed Preference of Governments, p. 103
  • Interpersonal Justice, p. 112
  • Unintended Effects of Producing Interpersonal Utility and Justice, p. 123
  • 3. Democratic Values, p. 131
  • Liberalism and Democracy, p. 131
  • Through Equality to Utility, p. 150
  • How Justice Overrides Contracts, p. 160
  • Egalitarianism as Prudence, p. 173
  • Love of Symmetry, p. 186
  • Envy, p. 198
  • 4. Redistribution, p. 205
  • Fixed Constitutions, p. 205
  • Buying Consent, p. 214 Addictive Redistribution, p. 228
  • Rising Prices, p. 249
  • Churning, p. 254
  • Towards a Theory of the State, p. 266
  • 5. State Capitalism, p. 274
  • What Is To Be Done?, p. 274
  • The State as Class, p. 290
  • On the Plantation, p. 301
  • Index