Anthony de Jasay (15 October 1925 – 23 January 2019) was a Hungarian writer, economist, and philosopher.

He then worked as a freelance journalist, but emigrated from Hungary in 1948 after the Communist government nationalized his father's farm.

His views have been described as liberal, sceptical of the state, and favouring strict limits on government.

Moving to England, de Jasay did research at Nuffield College, Oxford until 1962.

[2] The confiscation of his father's farm and the Solidarność movement in Poland in the 1980s inspired de Jasay to author his first book, The State (1985).