Skip to content

Anarchy and the Law The Political Economy of Choice

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 1412805791

ISBN-13: 9781412805797

Edition: 2006

Authors: Edward P. Stringham

List price: $51.95
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Private-property anarchism is a political philosophy and set of economic and legal arguments that maintains that markets and contracts should provide law and that the rule of law itself can only be understood as a private institution. This book presents the essays that examine historical examples of stateless orders.
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 714
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Theory of Private Property Anarchism
Police, Law, and the Courts
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (excerpt)
Market for Liberty (excerpt)
Pursuing Justice in a Free Society: Crime Prevention and the Legal Order
Capitalist Production and the Problem of Public Goods (excerpt)
National Defense and the Public-Goods Problem
Defending a Free Nation
The Myth of the Rule of Law
Debate
The State
The Invisible Hand Strikes Back
Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State
Objectivism and the State: An Open Letter to Ayn Rand
Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?
Law as a Public Good: The Economics of Anarchy
Law as a Private Good: A Response to Tyler Cowen on the Economics of Anarchy
Rejoinder to David Friedman on the Economics of Anarchy
Networks, Law, and the Paradox of Cooperation
Conflict Cooperation and Competition in Anarchy
Conventions: Some Thoughts on the Economics of Ordered Anarchy
Can Anarchy Save Us from Leviathan?
Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable
Is Government Inevitable? Comment on Holcombe's Analysis
History of Anarchist Thought
Gustave de Molinari and the Anti-statist Liberal Tradition (excepts)
Vindication of Natural Society (excerpt)
The Production of Security
Individualist Anarchism in the U.S.: Origins
Anarchism and American Traditions
Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny, and the Christian's Relation to It (excerpt)
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (excerpt)
Trial by Jury (excerpt)
Relation of the State to the Individual
Freedom, Society, and the State: An Investigation Into the Possibility of Society without Government (excerpt)
Historical Case Studies of Non-Government Law Enforcement
Are Public Goods Really Common Pools? Considerations of the Evolution of Policing and Highways in England
Property Rights in Celtic Irish Law
Private Creation and Enforcement of Law-A Historical Case
The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs
Legal Evolution in Primitive Societies
An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West
Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes (excerpt)
About the Editor and Contributors
Index