Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 14
PART I. State-of Nature Theory, or How to Back into a State without Really Trying......Page 16
1. Why State-of-Nature Theory?......Page 18
Political Philosophy......Page 19
Explanatory Political Theory......Page 21
2. The State of Nature......Page 25
Protective Associations......Page 27
The Dominant Protective Association......Page 30
Invisible-Hand Explanations......Page 33
Is the Dominant Protetive Association a State?......Page 37
The Minimal State and the Ultraminimal State......Page 41
Moral Constraints and Moral Goals......Page 43
Why Side Constraints?......Page 45
Libertarian Constraints......Page 48
Constraints and Animals......Page 50
The Experience Machine......Page 57
Underdetermination of Moral Theory......Page 60
What are Constraints Based Upon?......Page 63
The Individualist Anarchist......Page 66
Independents and the Dominant Protective Agency......Page 69
Probihibition and Compensation......Page 72
Why Ever Prohibit?......Page 73
Retributive and Deterrence Theories of Punishment......Page 74
Dividing the Benefits of Exhange......Page 78
Fear and Prohibition......Page 80
Why Not Always Prohibit?......Page 86
Risk......Page 88
The Principle of Compensation......Page 93
Productive Exchange......Page 99
Prohibiting Private Enforcement of Justice......Page 103
"The Principle of Fairness"......Page 105
Procedural Rights......Page 111
How May the Dominant Agency Act?......Page 116
The De Facto Monopoly......Page 123
Protecting Others......Page 125
The State......Page 128
The Invisible-Hand Explanation of the State......Page 133
Stopping the Process......Page 135
Preemptive Attack......Page 141
Behavior in the Process......Page 145
Legitimacy......Page 148
The Right of All to Punish......Page 152
Preventive Restraint......Page 157
7. Distributive Justice......Page 164
The Entitlement Theory......Page 165
Historical Principles and End-Result Principles......Page 168
Patterning......Page 170
How Liberty Upsets Patterns......Page 175
Sen's Argument......Page 179
Redistribution and Property Rights......Page 182
Locke's Theory of Acquisition......Page 189
The Proviso......Page 193
Social Cooperation......Page 198
Terms of Cooperation and the Difference Principle......Page 204
The Original Position and End-Result Principles......Page 213
Macro and Micro......Page 219
Natural Assets and Arbitrariness......Page 228
The Positive Argument......Page 231
The Negative Argument......Page 239
Collective Assets......Page 243
Equality......Page 247
Equality  of Opportunity......Page 250
Self-Esteem and Envy......Page 254
Meaningful Work......Page 261
Workers' Control......Page 265
Maxrxian Exploitation......Page 268
Voluntary Exchange......Page 277
Philanthropy......Page 280
Having a Say Over What Affects You......Page 283
The Nonneutral State......Page 286
How Redistribution Operates......Page 289
9. Demoktesis......Page 291
Consistency and Parallel Examples......Page 292
The More-Than-Minimal State Derived......Page 295
Hypothetical Histories......Page 307
PART III. Utopia......Page 310
The Model......Page 312
The Model Projected onto Our World......Page 322
The Framework......Page 324
Design Devices and Filter Devices......Page 327
The Framework as Utopian Common......Page 332
Community and Nation......Page 335
Communities which Change......Page 338
Total Communities......Page 340
Utopian Means and Ends......Page 341
How Utopia Works Out......Page 346
Utopia and the Minimal State......Page 348
CHAPTER 2 I The State of Nature......Page 350
CHAPTER 3 I Moral Constraints and the State......Page 352
CHAPTER 4 I Prohibition, Compensation, and Risk......Page 353
CHAPTER 5 I The State......Page 355
CHAPTER 6 I Further Considerations on the Argumentfor the State......Page 356
CHAPTER 7 I Distributive Justice......Page 359
CHAPTER 8 I Equality, Envy, Exploitation, Etc.......Page 363
CHAPTER 9 I Demoktesis......Page 365
CHAPTER 10 I A Framework for Utopia......Page 366
Bibliography......Page 370
acquisition, principle of — Demsetz, H.,......Page 376
Dershowirz, A. — extensive state......Page 377
externalities — liability......Page 378
liability (continued) — patterned principles......Page 379
patterned principles (continued) — rights......Page 380
rights (continued) — utopia......Page 381
utopia — Zablocki, B.......Page 382