Writers Can Prosper Without Intellectual Property
If composers could set still-unmatched records of productivity without copyrights while earning a living, writers could do this in an environment t
Political Theory
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The Future of Libertarianism
Rothbard explains why he is optimistic. The norm of civilization has been despotism and statism. The quantum quality change in history has been the Industrial Revolution from mid-18th Century to mid-19th. Only the free market, libertarian society can expand this viable and moral industrialism.
A Matter of Degree: The New York Subway
The small State can do to Society everything the large State can do, but not so much of it.
Foreword and Acknowledgements
From the first edition of Robert P. Murphy’s Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy.
Narrated by Jock Coats.
Private Defense
The free market can provide defense more cheaply and more effectively than the government can.
Introduction to Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy
Once we simply imagine the possibility of a society without the state, the case for anarcho-capitalism or "market anarchy" seems obvious.
Does the State Protect Us?
When the enemy is at the gates, the individual abdicates his self-reliance and places himself unreservedly under the direction of the captain; he g
A History of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand's books sell between eight hundred thousand and a million copies a year. Her first novel We the Living was admired by Mencken. Night of January 16th opened on Broadway. Her major novel The Fountainhead (1943) was "masterful". Atlas Shrugged (1957) was Rand's magnus opus.
Reactionary Liberals
The weakness of a benevolent despotism is that there is no guarantee that it will remain benevolent. The Social Welfare State, the modern liberals' goal, is essentially a Germanic concept.
