The State as Utopia: Continental Approaches

Jürgen Backhaus is a German liberal scholar and author. He teaches at the University of Erfurt. He has written primarily on finance and the economic analysis of law. He completed his university studies at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and at Auburn University. He obtained his Ph.D in economics at Constance in 1986 with a thesis titled Co-Determination: A Legal and Economic Analysis. He also spent a year at the Center for Study of Public Choice in Virginia. Between 1980 and 1986, he taught in the Department of Economics at Auburn University in the United States. From 1986 to 2001, he taught financial sciences at the University of Maastricht. At the same time, he is a visiting professor at the Robert Schumann University in Strasbourg. He wrote many works, in particular on the German historical school. He has also collaborated with the Independent Institute.