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# Anthony de Jasay 

Former Adjunct Scholar 

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Anthony de Jasay (1925 – 2019) was an influential independent philosopher and economist who has become one of the world’s foremost exponents of classical liberalism.

Following World War II, de Jasay worked as a freelance journalist in his native Hungary until he was forced into exile. He became a research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and has published in the *Economic Journal*, the *journal of Political Economy*, and other scholarly journals. In the popular press, his work has appeared in the *Wall Street Journal*, the *Financial Times*, *Le Monde*, and the *Neue Züricher Zeitung*.

He is the author of such celebrated books as *The State* (1985), *Social Contract, Free Ride: A Study of Public Goods Problem* (1980), *Choice, Contract, Consent: A Restatement of Liberalism* (1991), *Before Resorting to Politics* (1996), *Against Politics: Government, Anarchy, and Order* (1997), and *Justice and Its Surroundings* (2002).

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