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The Mises Circle in Costa Mesa, California, 8 November 2014. This seminar examines Law and Order in a Free World: the institutions of a stateless society and explores topics such as private defense, private police, privately produced money, the role of markets, and how stateless legal systems would work. Download the complete audio of this event
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Robert P. Murphy
The Bob Murphy Show features in-depth interviews and solo analysis by Bob Murphy. Much of the content relates to economics in the tradition of the Austrian School, as well as libertarian political theory, but the show covers a broad range of topics. To learn more, visit
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William Lloyd
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[The following essay is from the personal papers of John William Lloyd, a 19th century radical who contributed to a pioneering periodical named Liberty . Liberty was edited by Benjamin Tucker, an early individualist anarchist, passionate opponent of state socialism, and author of essays collected in Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write
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David Gordon
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[ Deleting the State: An Argument about Government . By Aeon J. Skoble. Open Court, 2008. Viii + 129 pages.] Aeon Skoble’s excellent book poses a fundamental challenge to minimal-state libertarians. All libertarians take freedom to be the highest political value and oppose coercion. Why, then, do some libertarians reject anarchism? Under
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Robert P. Murphy
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The Market for Liberty by Linda and Morris Tannehill, Foreword by Karl Hess (Fox & Wilkes, 1993. 169 pgs.) One of the problems with being a so-called anarcho-capitalist is the battery of questions that people always throw at you: What about product safety? Won’t the Mafia take over? How do we defend ourselves from foreign invasion? And so on. If
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Robert P. Murphy
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In a recent article , I discussed the possibility of private, competing security agencies. I took for granted the background rule of law (or lack thereof), and merely made the relative argument that a monopoly institution of violence (i.e. the State) would not aid the achievement of a working consensus on legal norms, and that in fact (as history