Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction   Edward P. Stringham     1
Theory of Private Property Anarchism
Police, Law, and the Courts   Murray Rothbard     18
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (excerpt)   David Friedman     40
Market for Liberty (excerpt)   Morris Tannehill   Linda Tannehill     57
Pursuing Justice in a Free Society: Crime Prevention and the Legal Order   Randy Barnett     75
Capitalist Production and the Problem of Public Goods (excerpt)   Hans Hoppe     107
National Defense and the Public-Goods Problem   Jeffrey Rogers Hummel   Don Lavoie     127
Defending a Free Nation   Roderick Long     149
The Myth of the Rule of Law   John Hasnas     163
Debate
The State   Robert Nozick     193
The Invisible Hand Strikes Back   Roy A. Childs, Jr.     218
Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State   Murray Rothbard     232
Objectivism and the State: An Open Letter to Ayn Rand   Roy A. Childs, Jr.     250
Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?   Alfred G. Cuzan     259
Law as a Public Good: TheEconomics of Anarchy   Tyler Cowen     268
Law as a Private Good: A Response to Tyler Cowen on the Economics of Anarchy   David Friedman     284
Rejoinder to David Friedman on the Economics of Anarchy   Tyler Cowen     292
Networks, Law, and the Paradox of Cooperation   Bryan Caplan   Edward P. Stringham     295
Conflict Cooperation and Competition in Anarchy   Tyler Cowen   Daniel Sutter     315
Conventions: Some Thoughts on the Economics of Ordered Anarchy   Anthony de Jasay     322
Can Anarchy Save Us from Leviathan?   Andrew Rutten     341
Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable   Randall G. Holcombe     354
Is Government Inevitable? Comment on Holcombe's Analysis   Peter Leeson   Edward P. Stringham     371
History of Anarchist Thought
Gustave de Molinari and the Anti-statist Liberal Tradition (excepts)   David Hart     377
Vindication of Natural Society (excerpt)   Edmund Burke     399
The Production of Security   Gustave de Molinari     424
Individualist Anarchism in the U.S.: Origins   Murray Rothbard     437
Anarchism and American Traditions   Voltairine de Cleyre      451
Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny, and the Christian's Relation to It (excerpt)   David Lipscomb     461
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (excerpt)   Lysander Spooner     469
Trial by Jury (excerpt)   Lysander Spooner     484
Relation of the State to the Individual   Benjamin Tucker     499
Freedom, Society, and the State: An Investigation Into the Possibility of Society without Government (excerpt)   David Osterfeld     504
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     538
Property Rights in Celtic Irish Law   Joseph R. Peden     565
Private Creation and Enforcement of Law-A Historical Case   David Friedman     586
The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs   Paul Milgrom   Douglass North   Barry Weingast     602
Legal Evolution in Primitive Societies   Bruce Benson     624
An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West   Terry L. Anderson   P. J. Hill     639
Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes (excerpt)   Robert C. Ellickson     658
About the Editor and Contributors     680
Index     683