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Ökonomische Konzepte in Robert Nozicks Rechtfertigung eines Minimalstaats

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  • Knoll Bodo

    (Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Universität Hohenheim, D-70593 Stuttgart)

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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.

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  • Knoll Bodo, 2009. "Ökonomische Konzepte in Robert Nozicks Rechtfertigung eines Minimalstaats," Review of Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 60(3), pages 254-264, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:lus:reveco:v:60:y:2009:i:3:p:254-264
    DOI: 10.1515/roe-2009-0304
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