POWER AGAINST PEOPLE: A CHRISTIAN CRITIQUE OF THE STATE

Philip Vander Elst

Economic Affairs, 2009, vol. 29, issue 1, 64-70

Abstract: This article, based on the author's IEA web publication of the same name, challenges the widespread view that government is the best vehicle for achieving positive social change. Rather it argues that the over‐mighty state has always been the chief cause of oppression, poverty and war throughout the world.

Date: 2009
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