Libertarian Stuff

This page has links to things I have written likely to be of interest to libertarians. It is still under construction.

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Index to Ideas, with links to chapters and articles

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Some Chapters from The Machinery of Freedom

My Response to Mike Huben's webbed critique of libertarianism

Jonathan Andras' rebuttal to my response

My reply to his rebuttal

My Response to a (Different) Non-Libertarian faq

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Articles in Liberty

These articles are taken from drafts on my hard disk, so they may differ in detail from the versions that were published in Liberty. There may even be one or two that were written for Liberty but never published there.

• Drugs and Violence
• Capitalist Trucks
• The Swedes Get It Right, an article on the work of Ronald Coase
• Deja Vu, parallels between the Thomas case and the Hiss case.
• Diversity
• Welfare and Immigration--the Other Half of the Argument
• Paying for Crime Prevention
• A Positive Explanation of Virtue
• A Positive Explanation of Virtue: Part 2
• Census Patriotism
• Computerised Education
• On Hoppe
• Complications
• A Reply to Sheldon Richman
• The Weak Case for Public Schooling
• Drugs and Violence
• Earl Warren in a White Hat
  

Miscellaneous Articles

• Anarchy and Efficient Law (from For and Against the State)
• Why Crypto Matters
• "A World of Strong Privacy: Promises and Perils of Encryption," Social Philosophy and Policy

Academic Articles of Libertarian Interest

• "Rational Criminals and Profit-Maximizing Police: Gary Becker's Contribution to the Economic Analysis of Law and Law Enforcement" in The New Economics of Human Behavior;, Mariano Tommasi and Kathryn Ierulli, editors, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 43-58.
• "Should Medical Care be a Commodity?" Rights to Health Care , Thomas J. Bole III and William Bondeson, eds., Kluwer, 1991.
• "Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century," The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable  (Spring/Summer 1995).
• "Law as a Private Good," Economics and Philosophy  10 (1994), 319- 327.
• "Private Creation and Enforcement of Law -- A Historical Case." Journal of Legal Studies , (March 1979), pp. 399-415.
• "A Positive Account of Property Rights," Social Philosophy and Policy  11 No. 2 (Summer 1994) pp. 1-16.
• "Less Law than Meets the Eye,"a review of Order Without Law, by Robert Ellickson, The Michigan Law Review  vol. 90 no. 6, (May 1992) pp.1444-1452.
• "Choosing Metarules for Legal Change," AEA Papers and Proceedings , Vol. 82 No 2, (May 1992).

Translations

There are published French and Italian translations of The Machinery of Freedom , and a Spanish translation of Price Theory , but they have not, so far as I know, been webbed. One chapter of Machinery has, however, been translated into Polish and webbed, as has one of my articles.

My Usenet Posts of Libertarian Interest

• Response to Jimbo Wales Re Anarchy (from humanities.philosophy.objectivism)
• Some Problems with Ayn Rand's Derivation of Ought from Is (from hpo.)
• Requirements for anarcho-capitalism to work (from hpo)
• My comments on an anarchist FAQ that discusses my work on medieval Iceland. (7-8/96)
• My comments on an anarchist FAQ that discusses my work on medieval Iceland. (2/97)
• My extended exchange with a Usenet poster who dismissed my work on medieval Iceland. (12/00)
• Brief sketch of my view of oughts.

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  A letter I wrote to Edith Efron in 1978