Es handelt sich bei dem vorgestellten Werk um eine staatstheoretische und staatswissenschaftliche Untersuchung, die auf der Kategorie öffentlicher Güter beruht. Damit ist bereits ihr Maßstab bezeichnet und das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen privaten und öffentlichen Begriffen encadriert. Es...

1. Why the ‘Rule of Law’ -- 2. Spontaneous Order -- 3. The British Intellectual Inheritance -- 4. The English Legal Inheritance -- 5. A.V. Dicey -- 6. The Vanishing of the ‘Rule of Law’ -- 7. Rediscovery of the ‘Rule of Law’ in Hayek -- 8. Oakeshott

This is a comprehensive set of essays on myriad facets of public choice by many of the leading contributors in the field. The coverage is excellent and the essays are terrific. I highly recommend this book for researchers and students. (Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, US). -- The...

The recent global financial crisis has challenged conventional wisdom, and our conception of globalisation has been called into question. This challenging and timely book revisits the relationship between globalisation, the crisis and the state from an interdisciplinary perspective, with law,...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting State theory in Knowledge Capitalism after markets failure and pandemic crisis through a space – time approach -- Chapter 2. The socio – space – time relativity of the State -- Chapter 3. Long – term cyclicality of capitalism as State time dimension --...