Carl Schmitt (18881985), one of the most talked-about legal theorists of the twentieth century, argued that a society could survive an existential threat only through the exercise of coercive power by the state. Contrary to Schmitt, however, the free market provides better solutions than does the sovereign state even for the direst emergency.
Anarchy, Sovereignity, and the State of Exception
Schmitt's Challenge
By Michael McConkey
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