Mises Daily
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David Gordon
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[ The Rise and Decline of the State • By Martin van Creveld • Cambridge University Press, 1999 • 439 pages] 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 limited than do contemporary libertarians. To