Can free enterprise be the sole provider of law and justice? Robert Murphy, author of Chaos Theory, writes that the idea is often dismissed out of hand.

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An Economic Analysis of Power

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, Big Government, World History

08/02/2005

Michael Rozeff explains ways in which power comes to work its evil. A ruler is never as careful with public money as with his own.

6. Ronald Coase: A Libertarian Critique

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory

07/28/2005 Walter Block

There are many enemies of a free society. Some, like Ronald Coase, call themselves libertarians or free enterprisers. Block’s main critique of Coase is that Ronald Coase denies any private property rights. Coase deals with externalities through taxes only, but not with property rights at all.

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