Anarchy and the law : the political economy of choice / edited by Edward P. Stringham.

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Corporate Author: Independent Institute (Oakland, Calif.)
Other Authors: Stringham, Edward
Other title:Political economy of choice.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2007]
Series:Independent studies in political economy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Edward P. Stringham
  • SECTION I : THEORY OF PRIVATE PROPERTY ANARCHISM: Police, law, and the courts / Murray Rothbard
  • The machinery of freedom : guide to a radical capitalism (excerpt) / David Friedman
  • Market for liberty (excerpt) / Morris [Tannehill] and Linda Tannehill
  • Pursuing justice in a free society : crime prevention and the legal order / Randy Barnett
  • Capitalist production and the problem of public goods (excerpt) / Hans Hoppe
  • National defense and the public-goods problem / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Don Lavoie
  • Defending a free nation / Roderick Long
  • The myth of the rule of law / John Hasnas
  • SECTION II : DEBATE: The state / Robert Nozick
  • The invisible hand strikes back / Roy A. Childs, Jr.
  • Robert Nozick and the immaculate conception of the state / Murray Rothbard
  • Objectivism and the state : an open letter to Ayn Rand / Roy A. Childs, Jr.
  • Do we ever really get out of anarchy? / Alfred G. Cuzán
  • Law as a public good : the economics of anarchy / Tyler Cowen
  • Law as a private good : a response to Tyler Cowen on the economics of anarchy / David Friedman
  • Rejoinder to David Friedman on the economics of anarchy / Tyler Cowen
  • Networks, law, and the paradox of cooperation / Bryan Caplan and Edward P. Stringham
  • Conflict, cooperation and competition in anarchy / Tyler Cowen and Daniel Sutter
  • Conventions : some thoughts on the economics of ordered anarchy / Anthony de Jasay
  • Can anarchy save us from Leviathan? / Andrew Rutten
  • Government : unnecessary but inevitable / Randall G. Holcombe
  • Is government inevitable? : comment on Holcombe's analysis / Peter Leeson and Edward P. Stringham
  • SECTION III : HISTORY OF ANARCHIST THOUGHT: Gustave de Molinari and the anti-statist liberal tradition (excepts) / David Hart
  • Vindication of natural society (excerpt) / Edmund Burke
  • The production of security / Gustave de Molinari
  • Individualist anarchism in the U.S. : origins / Murray Rothbard
  • Anarchism and American traditions / Voltairine de Cleyre
  • Civil government : its origin, mission, and destiny, and the Christian's relation to it (excerpt) / David Lipscomb
  • No treason : the constitution of no authority (excerpt) / Lysander Spooner
  • Trial by jury (excerpt) / Lysander Spooner
  • Relation of the state to the individual / Benjamin Tucker
  • Freedom, society, and the state : an investigation into the possibility of society without government (excerpt) / David Osterfeld
  • SECTION IV : HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES OF NON-GOVERNMENT LAW ENFORCEMENT: Are public goods really common pools? : considerations of the evolution of policing and highways in England / Bruce Benson
  • Property rights in Celtic Irish law / Joseph R. Peden
  • Private creation and enforcement of law : a historical case / David Friedman
  • The role of institutions in the revival of trade : the law merchant, private judges, and the champagne fairs / Paul Milgrom, Douglass North, and Barry Weingast
  • Legal evolution in primitive societies / Bruce Benson
  • An American experiment in anarcho-capitalism : the not so wild, wild west / Terry L. Anderson and P.J. Hill
  • Order without law : how neighbors settle disputes (excerpt) / Robert C. Ellickson.