The state

Intro -- Anthony de Jasay, The State -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Details -- Table of Contents, p. vii -- Preface, p. ix -- Author's Note, p. xi -- 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, p. 311.