Mises Review
Author:
David Gordon
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Deliverance Mises Review 6, No. 2 (Summer 2000) THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE STATE Martin van Creveld Cambridge University Press, 1999, viii + 439 pgs. Martin van Creveld’s outstanding book traces the origin, growth, and decline of what Nietzsche termed “that coldest of all cold monsters, the state.” By “state,” our author means something more