This paper attempts to develop a model of the 'entrepreneurial state' based on Schutz's theory of human action.It aims to improve the understanding of the nature of state action and of entrepreneurial processes in the public sector.From the subjectivist paradigm, this paper argues that the...

According to the contract theory of the state, individuals give up their freedom to a specialist in violence who then provides public goods, such as private property rights and collective defense. The predatory perspective views the state as expropriating what it can unless individuals develop...