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François Facchini ()
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François Facchini: UP1 UFR02 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - École d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In their book Violence and Social Orders, North, Wallis, and Weingast (2009) argue that the main problem facing human societies is regulating violence within them. They suggest that neither political economy nor political science have taken this essential issue seriously. The Austro-American theory of the state, which emerged from 20th-century French liberal political economy and directly inspired Marx, develops a theory of the state that breaks with social contract theory and creates the state from a violent act. The state is a predator. It is a threat to individual sovereignty. For these reasons, it must be constrained and its violence limited.

Keywords: State; Predation; Production; Monopoly; Etat; Prédation; Violence; monopole (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in L'Ecole Autrichienne de A à Z, 2011

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