The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences Jürgen Georg Backhaus For other titles published in this series, go to www.springer.com/series/5902
Jürgen Georg Backhaus Editor The State as Utopia Continental Approaches
Editor Prof.Dr. Jürgen Georg Backhaus Universität Erfurt Fak. Staatswissenschaften Lehrst. Finanzwissenschaft/Finanzsoziologie Nordhäuser Str. 63 99089 Erfurt Thüringen Germany juergen.backhaus@uni-erfurt.de ISBN 978-1-4419-7499-0 e-isbn 978-1-4419-7500-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7500-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents Introduction... Jürgen Georg Backhaus 1 A Demand-Revealing Utopia... Nicolaus Tideman 3 Economic, City Planning and Environmental Proposals by Plato in the City of Atlantis and of the Laws... Christos P. Baloglou 7 Property in a Utopian State, Informed by Ideas of Pufendorf and Locke... Nicolaus Tideman 11 John Stuart Mill and the Utopian Tradition... Michael R. Montgomery 19 The State as Utopia: Some Thoughts on Theocracy... Gerrit Meijer 35 Justi s Concrete Utopia... Hartmuth Becker 41 The Kingdom of Ophir A Realistic Utopia... Günther Chaloupek 57 Is Montaigne a Utopian?... Marcel van Meerhaeghe 67 Labour in Utopian Socialism... Hans Frambach 77 vii
viii Contents Iambulus Sun State and T. Campanella s Civitas Solis : Some Comparative Parallels and Links of Two Utopias... Christos P. Baloglou 89 Developing Society According to Man's Development... 115 Arno Mong Daastøl and Johannes Michael Hanel The Utopian Element in the Formation of Doctrines on the State in German Staatswissenschaften... 161 Karl-Heinz Schmidt Utopia: Johann Peter Süßmilch and the Divine Order... 183 Gerhard Scheuerer Eugen Dühring and Post-Utopian Socialism... 191 E. James Gay Index... 205
Contributors Jürgen G. Backhaus University of Erfurt, Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology, Nordhäuser Str. 63, 99089, Erfurt, Germany juergen.backhaus@uni-erfurt.de Christos P. Baloglou Hellenis Telecommunications Organizations Athens, Messenias 14 & Gr. Lamprakis 143 42 Nea Philadelphia, Attikis Greececbaloglou@ote Hartmuth Becker Free University of Berlin, Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18, 14195, Berlin, Germany Hartmuth.Becker@t-online.de Günther Chaloupek Chamber of Labour, Prinz-Eugen-Straße 20-221041, Vienna, Austria Guenther.CHALOUPEK@akwien.at Arno Mong Daastoel Utsiktveien 341410, Kolbotn, Norway amd@daastol.com Hans Frambach Department of Economics, M. 13.16, University of Wuppertal, Gaußstraße 20, 42097, Wuppertal, Germany Frambach@wiwi.uni-wuppertal.de James Gay University of Erfurt, Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology, Nordhäuser Str. 6399089, Erfurt, Germany edwardjamesgay@googlemail.com ix
x Contributors Johannes Hanel Goethestraße 23, 99817, Eisenach, Germany hanelq@googlemail.com Marcel vanmeerhaeghe Kriekenbergdreef 21, 9831, Deurle, Belgium hvm@klaproos.be Gerrit Meijer Larixlaan 31231 BL, Nieuw-Loosdrecht, The Netherlands g.meijer@hetnet.nl Michael Montgomery School of Economics, The University of Maine, 230 Stevens Hall, Orono, ME, USA michael.montgomery@umit.maine.edu Gerhard Scheuerer Leitender Ministerialdirektor, University of Erfurt, Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology, Nordhäuser Str. 63, 99089, Erfurt, Germany gerhard.scheuerer@t-online.de Karl-Heinz Schmidt Department of Economics, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 10033098, Paderborn, Germany Karl-Heinz_Schmidt@wiwi.uni-paderborn.de Nicolaus Tideman Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 3021 Pamplin Hall (0316)Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA ntideman@vt.edu