Anthony de Jasay (15 October 1925 – 23 January 2019) was a Hungarian writer, economist, and right-libertarian philosopher.[1] He studied in Székesfehérvár and Budapest, and obtained a degree in agriculture. He then worked as a freelance journalist, but emigrated from Hungary in 1948 after the Communist government nationalized his father's farm.

Anthony de Jasay
Born	(1925-10-15)15 October 1925 Aba, Hungary
Died	23 January 2019(2019-01-23) (aged 93) France
Nationality	Hungarian
Education	Nuffield College
Occupation	Economist Philosopher
Website	www.dejasay.org

He spent two years in Austria, and then emigrated to Australia, where he took classes in economics at the University of Western Australia. Moving to England, de Jasay did research at Oxford University and Nuffield College until 1962. He finally settled in France and spent the rest of his career publishing articles for the Economic Journal and the Journal of Political Economy, among others.[2]

The confiscation of his father's farm and the Solidarność movement in Poland in the 1980s inspired de Jasay to author his first book, The State (1985).[3]

Anthony de Jasay died on 23 January 2019, aged 93 in France.[4]

Works

• de Jasay, Anthony (1985). The State. Basil Blackwell, Ltd. ISBN 0865971714.
• de Jasay, Anthony (1989). Social Contract, Free Ride: A Study of the Public-Goods Problem. Liberty Fund Inc. ISBN 0865977011.
• de Jasay, Anthony (1991). Choice, Contract, Consent: A Restatement of Liberalism. Institute of Economic Affairs. ISBN 0255362463.
• de Jasay, Anthony (1997). Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order. Routledge. ISBN 0415170672.
• de Jasay, Anthony (2010). Political Economy, Concisely: Essays on Policy That Does Not Work and Markets That Do. Liberty Fund Inc. ISBN 978-0865977778.
• de Jasay, Anthony (2010). Political Philosophy, Clearly: Essays on Freedom and Fairness, Property and Equalities. Liberty Fund Inc. ISBN 978-0865977839.
• de Jasay, Anthony (2014). Economic Sense and Nonsense: Reflections from Europe, 2008–2012. Liberty Fund Inc. ISBN 978-0865978782.
• de Jasay, Anthony (2014). Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick. Liberty Fund Inc. ISBN 978-0865978850.

References