The Impossibility of Maintaining the Minimal State of Robert Nozick

Abstract

In this paper we analyze how Robert Nozicks minimal state proposed would invariably end, unless its members were coerced by the central government to contribute to its maintenance. And, in this case, rights and freedom protected under the philosophers state would obviously be violated. We also analyze the flaws in Nozicks model through economic bias in order to show - through game theory and logic of collective action how an organization that provides nonexclusive public goods is vulnerable to the action of free-riders, thus increasing the costs of its performance, and decreasing motivation for its existence.

Keywords

• Anarquia, estado e utopia
• Teoria dos jogos
• Dilema do prisioneiro
• Lógica da ação coletiva
• Free-rider