The Machinery of Freedom:

Guide to a Radical Capitalism

 

Dedication

Part I: IN DEFENSE OF PROPERTY (Not currently webbed)

Poem: A Saint Said

1. In Defense of Property

2. A Necessary Digression

3. Love Is Not Enough

Interlude

4. Robin Hood Sells Out

5. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Richer

6. Monopoly I: How To Lose Your Shirt

7. Monopoly II: State Monopoly for Fun and Profit

8. Exploitation and Interest

9. I Don't Need Nothing


Part II: LIBERTARIAN GRAB BAG OR HOW TO SELL THE STATE IN SMALL PIECES (Not currently webbed)

Poem: Paranoia

10. Sell the Schools

11. A Radical Critique of American Universities

12. The Impossibility of a University

13. Adam Smith U.

14. Open the Gates

15. Sell the Streets

16. 99and 44/100ths Percent Built

17. A First Step

18. Counterattack

19. Might Have Been

20. Is William F Buckley a Contagious Disease?

21. Its My Life

22. The Rights of Youth

23. Creeping Capitalism

24. If You Want It, Buy It

25. Scarce Means Finite

26. Pollution

27. Buckshot for a Socialist Friend


Part III: ANARCHY IS NOT CHAOS (two chapters webbed)

Poem: Anarchy is not Chaos

28. What is Anarchy? What is Government?

29. Police, Courts, and Laws--on theMarket

30. The Stability Problem

31.. Is Anarcho-Capitalism Libertarian?

32. And, As a Free Bonus

33. Socialism, Limited Government, Anarchy, and Bikinis

(A polish translation of Chapter 33 has also been webbed.)

34. National Defense: The Hard Problem

35. In Which Prediction is Reduced to Speculation

36. Why Anarchy?

37. Revolution ls the Hell of It

38. Economics of Theft, or the Nonexistence of the Ruling Class

39. The Right Sideof the Public Good Trap

40. How to Get There from Here

Postscript for Perfectionists


Part IV: FOR LIBERTARIANS--AN EXPANDED POSTSCRIPT (three chapters webbed)

Poem: Second Edition

41: Problems

42: Where I Stand

43: Answers: The Economic Analysis of Law

44. Private Law Enforcement, Medieval Iceland, and Libertarianism

(A Polish translation of Chapter 44 has been webbed.)

45. Is There a Libertarian Foreign Policy?

46. The Market for Money

47. Anarchist Politics:Concerning the Libertarian Party.

48. G. K. Chesterton--An Author Review

Appendix I: SomeNumbers

Appendix II: My Competition

Index


These chapters are webbed by permission of my publisher, Open Court. They are based on the versions on my hard disk and may vary in detail from the published text. They are variously copyright 1973 and 1978 by David Friedman, 1989 by Open Court Publishing Company.

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