A Deep Thinker
Anthony de Jasay in Cato Unbound: “Government, Bound or Unbound?”
Jasay is one of the most interesting and challenging writers active today. His books are always an adventure. He has a column at EconLib.org (“Your Dog Owns Your House” is a good sample of his insight) and is the author of many books, my favorites among them Social Contract, Free Ride and Choice, Contract, and Consent: A Restatement of Liberalism.
My essay “No Exit: Framing the Problem of Justice” was published in the new festschrift for Tony, Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and His Surroundings, ed. by Hartmut Kliemt and Hardy Bouillon (London: Ashgate, 2008).
You tease me by posting so often on one of my favourite thinkers!
Thanks for the heads up regarding the new article.
I am going to purchase the festschrift for Mr. de Jasay when I can afford it.
See also Jan’s new festschrift also by Ashgate. It’s very good.
http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Games-Contracts-Malcolm-Murray/dp/0754656810/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202872033&sr=8-7
Indeed, Anthony de Jasay is one of the most brilliant, profound and original author among contemporary accomplished political thinkers (or political economists) – and a great libertarian. His work deserves to be known and consider more widely by economists, political scientists and other specialists.
I am likewise impressed, but I found the link to “Your Dog Owns Your House” to go to the opening chapters of “The State” instead. Here’s the correct link (also entered under my name):
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/Jasaydog.html
Oops!! Thanks for the correction. I’ve fixed it.