New Issues of Rules (Vol. 48, No. 1 [Spring 2025]) My review of Anthony by the Justice and the Environment of Jasai’s Book under the rubric from the Past (Liberty Fund, 2002). This book may appeal to more political philosophers than economists compared to politics (Routledge, 1997) that I recently reviewed for Economist. We always find doses by philosophy and economics in the writings of de Jasai. This is not surprising because, as economists say, propositions for social organizations have a moral basis, they have the value judgments necessary to hinder them.
Opposition to politics should be read before justice and its surroundings, but since the book is a collection of articles, the reader can choose within each of his level of difficulty. And his original book, “The Probability of the Nation,” remains the highest entrance to his thinking. Morrowbar, it is available online at Lively Obliberry.
To return to my latest regulatory review of Justice and its surroundings (online available in its HTML and PDF poems – appearing on page 55 in the case of Lactoter) there are a few excerpts here.
Property can be seen as the infrastructure of society, which, as a result of commerce, is “before political authority, against the state.” All voluntary private relationships and all powerful states are at both extremes of the spectrum. …
Jasay argues that cooperative games are not Parinodairema games, they are played in society, and that submission to central enforcement is not necessary. …
In the original typology, Jasai considers rights created for voluntary exchanges with matching coercion. I will lend you $100 a year, or you agree to assume the obligation to refund $104 next year. So I have the right to $104 at that time. Freedom is not a tort, but rather the difficulty of being able to do it when it is not assumed in violation of its obligation. …
We can encapsulate Jasai’s complex theory of justice with a combination of strong estimation of freedom (or in fact freedom), voluntary practices as the basis of law, and strong respect for private property. …
Jasai does not believe in general and formal equality before the law, as it is the way that a liberal state provides. This is the academic discipline that his theory has no state. In fact, one might say that equality exists before customs. Many will find this to be a weakness in his theory, at least from a standard classical liberal perspective.
Other interesting aspects of justice and its environment include attacks on egalitarianism and socialism, including market socialism. Jasai also criticizes Buchanan’s criticism of social contractivism Altochof. He shows a lot of respect for him. My reviews cover more and provide more details.
