Sublime

But, contrary to libertarian rhetoric, we are not monads. From birth until death, our ability to reach our goals, even to survive, is tightly linked to our social interactions with others in our society.

Thinking about government as an economic unit that sells protection led Lane to analyze the control of government in economic rather than political terms. In this view, there are three basic alternatives in the control of government, each of which entails a fundamentally different set of incentives: proprietors, employees, and customers.

Mestmäcker décrivait le traité de Rome comme l’application des propositions de Hayek sur la nécessité de lier l’État par des « principes juridiques constitutionnellement garantis191 ». Cependant, il ne pouvait que constater une des faiblesses du droit : son incapacité à reconnaître ses propres aspects politiques192. C’est vers Schmitt qu’il se tour