Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Knoll, Bodo

Titel

Ökonomische Konzepte in Robert Nozicks Rechtfertigung eines Minimalstaats

Ist Teil von

• Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 2009-09, Vol.60 (3), p.254

Ort / Verlag

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In his "Anarchy, State, and Utopia", Robert Nozick tried to justify a minimal state. While his theory is based on economic concepts, economists have as yet paid little attention to it. The use of economics is demonstrated by a reconstruction of Nozick's arguments in the first part of "Anarchy, State, and Utopia": Ruinous competition leads to a natural monopoly of the "dominant protection agency". Externalities are used to legitimize the minimal state's prohibition of other protection agencies. Its duty to protect all citizens can be seen as a redistributive in-kind transfer. Nozick explicitly refers to the neoclassical theory of law in his justification of the minimal state's right to impose a deterrent criminal law. The economic concepts imply arguments in favour of the minimal state that are partly inconsistent. [PUB ABSTRACT]