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Intro -- Anthony de Jasay, Economic Sense and Nonsense -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Details -- Table of Contents, p. vii -- Preface, p. xi -- Part I. To Spend or Not to Spend?, p. 1 -- 1. To Spend or Not To Spend?, p. 3 -- 2. Who is Afraid of the National Debt?, p. 8 -- 3. Two Cheers For Fiscal Austerity: Part I, p. 13 -- 4. Two Cheers For Fiscal Austerity: Part 2, p. 17 -- 5. What Became of the Liquidity Trap?, p. 22 -- 6. The Archbishop and the Accountants, p. 25 -- 7. Two Ways, But Where To?, p. 29 -- 8. The Platinum Rule, p. 34 -- 9. A Fiscal Curb To Tame the State?, p. 40 -- 10. Can Sovereign Borrowing Be A Criminal Offense?, p. 43 -- Part 2. The Third Way to Stability?, p. 47 -- 1. Greed, Need, Risk, and Regulation, p. 49 -- 2. Trudging Down the Third Way, p. 59 -- 3. Open Season on the Capitalist Free-For-All, p. 63 -- 4. Collective Choice at Work, p. 66 -- 5. Instinctive Blunders: Job Protection and Redistribution, p. 70 -- 6. In Fantasyland: the Stressless Economy, p. 74 -- 7. They Wanted A New Order, p. 78 -- Part 3: The United States of Europe and America, p. 83 -- 1. The Foolish Quest For Stability, p. 85 -- 2. Europeans Know Better: The Atlantic Cleavage on Financial Reform, p. 89 -- 3. Our Cherished Optimum Currency Area: Its Trials and Tribulations, p. 93 -- 4. Eurozone: It Seemed A Good Idea at the Time, p. 98 -- 5. Stone-Age Banking, Anti-Speculation, and Rescuing the Euro, p. 102 -- 6. Butcher, Brewer, Baker, Banker: All Must Work by the Golden Rule, p. 106 -- 7. Euramerica: A Safety-First Economy, p. 110 -- 8. Come and Get Caught in my Trap, p. 114 -- 9. The Use and Abuse of Taxes and Tax Havens, p. 118 -- 10. Russia's Socialist Heritage, p. 122 -- 11. Oil, Gas, and Bluster, p. 127 -- Part 4. The Best of the Worst, p. 135 -- 1. The Best of the Worst: What Price Democracy?, p. 137.

Anthony de Jasay's work has been enormously influential, describing both a theoretical philosophical model for a stateless, liberal, free market order and offering analysis of and solutions to many of the technical economic problems associated with such a vision of society - most notably his work on the free rider and his return. In this book ten significant scholars in philosophy and political economy, including Nobel laureate in economics James Buchanan, pay tribute to the man and his work in a series of essays at once both respectful and critical. Ordered Anarchy focuses on three fundamental questions of libertarian thinking. Which are the basic libertarian principles and how do rights and liberties relate to each other? Is order possible and durable in an anarchic or quasi-anarchic society, and if so, under which preconditions? How and to what extent are the pillars of politics, such as the constitution, institutions and government, detrimental or beneficial to an enduring free society? While Narveson, Palmer and Bouillon focus on the first of these questions, the late Radnitzky and van Dun address the second. Benson, Holcombe and Kliemt provide answers to question number three, while Buchanan and Little highlight the role of Anthony de Jasay in this debate and the inspiration that his thinking has given to the authors of this volume.

"The author challenges what many of today's social and political philosophers widely accept: that social injustice is identified with inequality and social justice with equality. Rather, Jasay argues that justice preempts so-called social justice, so any attempt to adorn equality in the robes of social justice is an illusion, a sleight of hand, 'much as the Indian rope in the notorious trick is made to stand up skyward on its own.' The fifteen articles in this collection include both published and unpublished papers written over the years 2008 to 2012"--Publisher description

Intro -- Anthony de Jasay / Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick, (2015) -- Front Matter -- Half Title Page, p. i -- Frontispiece, p. iv -- Full Title Page, p. v -- Copyright Page, p. vi -- Contents, p. vii -- Preface, p. ix -- Part: Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick, p. 1 -- Part 1 Is Equal Superior?, p. 1 -- 1. Equalities, the Claims of Social Justice, and the Indian Rope Trick, p. 3 -- 2. Ranking Worlds by Words: A Case for Inequality, p. 33 -- 3. Against Poverty and the Misuse of Language That Helps to Perpetuate it, p. 41 -- 4. The "Justice" That Overrules the Rules of Justice, p. 49 -- Part 2 Inadvertent Surrender, Real Politics, and Rational Man, p. 55 -- 1. The Inadvertent Surrender: Spreading the State, Shrinking Liberty, p. 57 -- 2. Presumption of Liberty, p. 90 -- 3. On Rightsism, p. 93 -- 4. Human Rights and Wrongs: Misnomers, Illusions, Tensions, p. 105 -- Part 3 Contractarianism and Its Surroundings, p. 115 -- 1. Conduct and Contract, p. 117 -- 2. Ordered Anarchy and Contractarianism, p. 127 -- 3. Inspecting the Foundations of Liberalism, p. 133 -- Part 4 Errors and Omissions, p. 151 -- 1. Suckers, Punters, Pathbreakers: When Homo Oeconomicus is Selflessly Selfish, p. 153 -- 2. Who Will Guard the Guardians?, p. 164 -- 3. Can Opportunity be Equal? A Note on False Pretenses in Equality Discourse, p. 173 -- 4. Morals by Agreements, p. 178 -- Index, p. 181 -- Colophon, p. 196.