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"A selected list of references for the study of state government": p. 605-612. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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.

In an age in which trading activities of the state are increasing everywhere, in which the economic progress of underdeveloped countries has become the object of international and national concern, but in which, on the other hand, the rights and legitimate expectations of alien investors have in many countries suffered more frivolous and alarming setbacks than at any other time—in such an age the problem of the state's international responsibility for losses arising out of contractual relations between states (or other international persons) and aliens is clearly of great actuality.