Franz Oppenheimer Professions : Economist Born : March 30, 1864 Died : September 30, 1943 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Franz Oppenheimer The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors. Franz Oppenheimer groups purpose men I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'. Franz Oppenheimer political mean needs I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man. Franz Oppenheimer natural men mean Similar Authors Bryan Caplan economist Burton Malkiel economist Bruno Frey economist Brian Wesbury economist Branko Milanovic economist Andrew Samwick economist All Authors
