The State as Utopia

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Jürgen Georg Backhaus

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3. A Demand-Revealing Utopia

   • Nicolaus Tideman

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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

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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.

• Creative Destruction
• Heilbronn Symposium
• John Stuart Mill
• Schumpeterian Hypothesis
• Utopia

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

  Jürgen Georg Backhaus

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