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But Wouldn’t Warlords Take Over?

I stumbled across this on YouTube. Walter Block says that this essay was one of the best intros to free-market anarchism he’s read (or something like that). And hey–he’s read a lot! Anyway, the State is lucky I don’t have this guy’s voice:

Reader Mail: Reconciling Anarcho-Capitalism With Christianity

Bill Peacock (a fellow Christian) sent me some concerns about my Mises Academy online class on anarcho-capitalism. With permission, I reproduce portions of his email below and offer my reactions. Note that I am offering this post partly as a way just of airing “alternative views” that are well-reasoned; I am not trying to answer […]

The Market for Security (Mises 2012)

This is one of the talks I gave in Auburn in late July. I run through an economic case for complete privatization of judicial, police, and military services.

There Are Christian Anarchists

This is going to be a brief post since I have been traveling all day, coming back from Porcfest (which was awesome, by the way, but more on that as the video becomes available). Anyway, while at Porcfest I was chatting with an economics colleague, and she said that someone at dinner was stunned to […]

Potpourri

Lots of links have been piling up here… * You know how Keynesians liked that one journal article showing that businesses were more worried about bad sales than regulations? Well, when a survey shows the exact opposite, they still take it as further evidence that the demand-side story is right. (Note that I’m not saying […]

The Market for Security

This is actually a pretty good summary of my views on private law and defense, for those who are interested…

Anarchy in Somalia

Earlier this year the BBC did a series on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Somali state. (Gene Callahan held a prayer vigil for Siad Barre, I hear.) It just came to my attention, but better late than never: Economists familiar with the Rothbardian tradition have taken the analysis even further, persuasively arguing […]