The State

An 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. The text traces the logical and historical progression of the state from a modest-sized protector of life and property through its development into what the author believes to be an "agile seducer of democratic majorities" and "the welfare-dispensing drudge that it is today".

Preface

ix

(2)

Author's Note

xi

Introduction

1

(15)

1. The Capitalist State

16

(57)

Violence, Obedience, Preference

16

(6)

Title and Contract

22

(8)

The Contours of the Minimal State

30

(5)

If States Did Not Exist, Should They Be Invented?

35

(3)

Inventing the State: The Social Contract

38

(14)

Inventing the State: The Instrument of Class Rule

52

(13)

Closing the Loop by False Consciousness

65

(8)

2. The Adversary State

73

(58)

Repression, Legitimacy and Consent

73

(12)

Taking Sides

85

(11)

Tinker's Licence

96

(7)

The Revealed Preference of Governments

103

(9)

Interpersonal Justice

112

(11)

Unintended Effects of Producing Interpersonal Utility and Justice

123

(8)

3. Democratic Values

131

(74)

Liberalism and Democracy

131

(19)

Through Equality to Utility

150

(10)

How Justice Overrides Contracts

160

(13)

Egalitarianism as Prudence

173

(13)

Love of Symmetry

186

(12)

Envy

198

(7)

4. Redistribution

205

(69)

"Fixed" Constitutions

205

(9)

Buying Consent

214

(14)

Addictive Redistribution

228

(21)

Rising Prices

249

(5)

Churning

254

(12)

Towards a Theory of the State

266

(8)

5. State Capitalism

274

(37)

What Is to Be Done?

274

(16)

The State as Class

290

(11)

On the Plantation

301

(10)

Index

311

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