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Can Leviathan Make the Life of Man Less Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short?

John Orbell, Brent M. Rutherford

British Journal of Political Science · 1973 · 15 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

This is an attempt to operationalize and test the basic proposition of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: namely, that Leviathan (or an all-powerful government) makes the life of man less solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

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