Anthony de Jasay

Anthony de Jasay (15 October 1925 – 23 January 2019) was a Hungarian writer, economist, and philosopher. He studied in Székesfehérvár and Budapest, obtaining a degree in agriculture. He then worked as a freelance journalist, but emigrated from Hungary in 1948 after the Communist government nationalized his father's farm. His views have been described as liberal, sceptical of the state, and favouring strict limits on government.

He spent two years in Austria, and then emigrated to Australia, where he trained as an economist at the University of Western Australia. Moving to England, de Jasay did research at Nuffield College, Oxford until 1962. He finally settled in France and spent the rest of his career authoring articles for, among others, the Economic Journal and the Journal of Political Economy.

The confiscation of his father's farm and the Solidarność movement in Poland in the 1980s inspired de Jasay to author his first book, The State (1985).

Anthony de Jasay died on 23 January 2019, aged 93 in France.