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The State as Utopia

Continental Approaches

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Jürgen Georg Backhaus

    1. Fak. Staatswissenschaften, Lehrst. Finanzwissenschaft/, Universität Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

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  • Brings together an international collection of contributors from both academic and profession backgrounds
  • Examines some utopias which are virtually unknown and/or have never been studied in English
  • Uses the concept of utopia to test the Schumpeterian Hypothesis of Creative Destruction
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences (EHES, volume 9)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Jürgen Georg Backhaus
    Pages 1-2

  3. A Demand-Revealing Utopia

    • Nicolaus Tideman
    Pages 3-5

  4. Economic, City Planning, and Environmental Proposals by Plato in the City of Atlantis and of the Laws

    • Christos P. Baloglou
    Pages 7-9

  5. Property in a Utopian State, Informed by Ideas of Pufendorf and Locke

    • Nicolaus Tideman
    Pages 11-18

  6. John Stuart Mill and the Utopian Tradition

    • Michael R. Montgomery
    Pages 19-34

  7. The State as Utopia: Some Thoughts on Theocracy

    • Gerrit Meijer
    Pages 35-40

  8. Justi’s Concrete Utopia

    • Hartmuth Becker
    Pages 41-56

  9. The Kingdom of Ophir – A “Realistic Utopia”

    • Günther Chaloupek
    Pages 57-66

  10. Is Montaigne a Utopian?

    • Marcel van Meerhaeghe
    Pages 67-76

  11. Labor in Utopian Socialism

    • Hans Frambach
    Pages 77-88

  12. Iambulus’ “Sun State” and T. Campanella’s “Civitas Solis”: Some Comparative Parallels and Links of Two Utopias

    • Christos P. Baloglou
    Pages 89-114

  13. Developing Society According to Man’s Development

    • Arno Mong Daastøl, Johannes Michael Hanel
    Pages 115-159

  14. The Utopian Element in the Formation of Doctrines on the State in German “Staatswissenschaft”

    • Karl-Heinz Schmidt
    Pages 161-181

  15. Utopia: Johann Peter Süßmilch and the Divine Order

    • Gerhard Scheuerer
    Pages 183-189

  16. Eugen Dühring and Post-Utopian Socialism

    • E. James Gay
    Pages 191-204

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 205-207
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This book examines utopias in classical political economy and is based on the papers presented by leading scholars at the 22nd Heilbronn Symposium in the Economics and the Social Sciences. The book focuses on the tension between the State and utopia (the State as utopia vs. utopia instead of a state). The contributors also study the question of whether seafaring and landlocked states visualize the commonwealth differently and develop different utopias, and it is concluded they do not. The volume therefore follows the refutation of the Schumpeterian Hypothesis that more concentrated industries stimulate innovation. Though the hypothesis is refuted it still remains important, the chapters argue, because it charts out an entire research program, serves as a benchmark of definite public and private sector boundaries, and defines the grammar of discourse for constitutional economic policy in OECD states. These themes are explored in detail through contributions by economists, philosophers, and social historians. The contributors examine utopias hitherto never or rarely reviewed in the English language, making this book of interest to students and scholars in economics, political science and the history of economic thought.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fak. Staatswissenschaften, Lehrst. Finanzwissenschaft/, Universität Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

    Jürgen Georg Backhaus

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