Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Edward P. Stringham

Section I: Theory of Private Property Anarchism
2. Police, Law, and the Courts
Murray Rothbard
3. The Machinery of Freedom:
Guide to a Radical Capitalism (excerpt)
David Friedman
4. Market for Liberty (excerpt)
Morris and Linda Tannehill
5. Pursuing Justice in a Free Society:
Crime Prevention and the Legal Order
Randy Barnett
6. Capitalist Production and the Problem
of Public Goods (excerpt)
Hans Hoppe
7. National Defense and the Public-Goods Problem
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Don Lavoie
8. Defending a Free Nation
Roderick Long
9. The Myth of the Rule of Law
John Hasnas

Section II: Debate
10. The State
Robert Nozick
11. The Invisible Hand Strikes Back
Roy A. Childs, Jr.
12. Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception
of the State
Murray Rothbard
13. Objectivism and the State:
An Open Letter to Ayn Rand
Roy A. Childs, Jr.
14. Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?
Alfred G. Cuzan
15. Law as a Public Good: The Economics of Anarchy
Tyler Cowen
16. Law as a Private Good:
A Response to Tyler Cowen on the Economics of Anarchy
David Friedman
17. Rejoinder to David Friedman on the Economics
of Anarchy
Tyler Cowen
18. Networks, Law, and the Paradox of Cooperation
Bryan Caplan and Edward P. Stringham
19. Conflict, Cooperation and Competition in Anarchy
Tyler Cowen and Daniel Sutter
20. Conventions: Some Thoughts on the Economics
of Ordered Anarchy
Anthony de Jasay
21. Can Anarchy Save Us from Leviathan?
Andrew Rutten
22. Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable
Randall G. Holcombe
23. Is Government Inevitable?
Comment on Holcombe's Analysis
Peter Leeson and Edward P. Stringham

Section III: History of Anarchist Thought
24. Gustave de Molinari and the Anti-statist
Liberal Tradition (excerpts)
David Hart
25. Vindication of Natural Society (excerpt)
Edmund Burke
26. The Production of Security
Gustave de Molinari
27. Individualist Anarchism in the U.S.:
Origins
Murray Rothbard
28. Anarchism and American Traditions
Voltairine de Cleyre
29. Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny,
and the Christian's Relation to It (excerpt)
David Lipscomb
30. No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (excerpt)
Lysander Spooner
31. Trial by Jury (excerpt)
Lysander Spooner
32. Relation of the State to the Individual
Benjamin Tucker
33. Freedom, Society, and the State:
An Investigation Into the Possibility of Society
without Government (excerpt)
David Osterfeld

Section IV: Historical Case Studies of Non-Government
Law Enforcement
34. Are Public Goods Really Common Pools?
Considerations of the Evolution of Policing and
Highways in England
Bruce L. Benson
35. Property Rights in Celtic Irish Law
Joseph R. Peden
36. Private Creation and Enforcement of Law—
A Historical Case
David Friedman
37. The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade:
The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne
Fairs
Paul Milgrom, Douglass North, and Barry Weingast
38. Legal Evolution in Primitive Societies
Bruce Benson
39. An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism:
The Not So Wild, Wild West
Terry L. Anderson and P. J. Hill
40. Order without Law:
How Neighbors Settle Disputes (excerpt)
Robert C. Ellickson
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

About the Author

Edward P. Stringham is professor of economics at San Jose State University and a research fellow at The Independent Institute. A member of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, he is the editor of Anarchy, State, and Public Choice.

Reviews

-Finally, a fit rejoinder to people who begin sentences with There ought to be a law' ...-
P. J. O'Rourke, author, Parliament of Whores and On the Wealth of Nations
-Scholars interested in scrutinizing the links between political and legal institutions will find Anarchy and the Law an invaluable resource.-
Tom W. Bell, Professor of Law, Chapman University
-The dynamics of government growth has proven that no matter how benign the original intent and no matter how limited their scope, government programs will eventuate in abuse and malignancy. Anarchy and the Law assembles key essays that embrace this view.-
Ronald Hamowy, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Alberta, Canada
-Anarchy and the Law is a breakthrough work, one which anyone interested in politics will find intellectually exciting.-
Ralph Raico, Professor of History, Buffalo State College
-Anarchy and the Law is a must read' for anyone open to ideas and interested in the preservation of liberty.-
Thomas J. Nechyba, Professor of Economics, Duke University
-Anarchy and the Law is an essential book on the theory and history of non-state' legal systems in which law enforcement is privatized, including essays by both proponents and skeptics.-
Lawrence H. White, Friedrich A. Hayek Professor of Economic History, University of Missouri, St. Louis

"Finally, a fit rejoinder to people who begin sentences with There ought to be a law' ..."
P. J. O'Rourke, author, Parliament of Whores and On the Wealth of Nations
"Scholars interested in scrutinizing the links between political and legal institutions will find Anarchy and the Law an invaluable resource."
Tom W. Bell, Professor of Law, Chapman University
"The dynamics of government growth has proven that no matter how benign the original intent and no matter how limited their scope, government programs will eventuate in abuse and malignancy. Anarchy and the Law assembles key essays that embrace this view."
Ronald Hamowy, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Alberta, Canada
"Anarchy and the Law is a breakthrough work, one which anyone interested in politics will find intellectually exciting."
Ralph Raico, Professor of History, Buffalo State College
"Anarchy and the Law is a must read' for anyone open to ideas and interested in the preservation of liberty."
Thomas J. Nechyba, Professor of Economics, Duke University
"Anarchy and the Law is an essential book on the theory and history of non-state' legal systems in which law enforcement is privatized, including essays by both proponents and skeptics."
Lawrence H. White, Friedrich A. Hayek Professor of Economic History, University of Missouri, St. Louis