Community, Anarchy and Liberty

Name: Community, Anarchy and Liberty
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ISBN: 9780521270144

ISBN-10: 0521270146

ISBN-13: 9780521270144

Edition: 1982

Authors: Michael Taylor

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Can social order be maintained in a stateless society? Is anarchy viable? The contention of this book is that stateless social order is possible only if relations between people are those characteristic of community. Rejecting the libertarian argument that the goods and services which make up 'social order' can be provided by private firms competing in the marketplace, and the liberal argument that because social order is a public good its maintenance requires the state, Michael Taylor goes on to examine the methods actually used to maintain order in anarchic and quasi-anarchic societies and shows how these methods can be effective only in a small and stable community. Community in turn…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/9/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Anarchy and community



Introduction: the scope of the book



Anarchy: what it is



Power, authority and what anarchy is not



Community



Anarchic communities



Social order without the state



Social order and public goods



Social order and the state



Social order on the market



Social order in stateless societies



Community and stateless social order



Equality in anarchy



Is equality unstable in anarchy?



The control of inequality in stateless societies



The birth of the state



Community and liberty



Pure negative freedom, freedom from coercion, and autonomy



Are community and liberty incompatible?



Epilogue: the future of community and anarchy


Bibliography


Index