Anthony de Jasay
Born(1925-10-15)15 October 1925
Aba, Hungary
Died23 January 2019(2019-01-23) (aged 93)
France
NationalityHungarian
EducationNuffield College
Occupation(s)Economist
Philosopher
Websitewww.dejasay.org

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.

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]

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References

  1. ^ "Für strikte Grenzen des Staates". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 28 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Biography". dejasay.org.
  3. ^ Schwartz, Karl-Peter (April 11, 2019). "Anthony de Jasay (1925-2019)". The European Conservative. Archived from the original on May 20, 2021. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
  4. ^ "Fallece Anthony de Jasay: ésta fue su última entrevista en España". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 27 January 2019.
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