Political Theory

Or: We’re from the government—and we’re here to help.

One truism has never been successfully challenged: Government interventions lead to a less efficient, less well-ordered society.

A legal system is an institution to provide dispute resolution through judicial, legislative and executive functions. The state is that which maintains in large part a monopoly over force, geography and the legal system.

Hans Hoppe is a thinker of striking originality, and this excellent collection of his essays is filled with arguments: it is, as my great teacher Walter Starkie used to say, "packed with matter."

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

We have a right not to be aggressed against. Any other right has to be an application of my right not to have force initiated against me. Now, we need to do this with property rights. We need to treat the violation of property as aggression against self.

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Walter Block and Tom DiLorenzo have looked at Constitutional Economics, and determined that politics are not just another market. There is only a curious analogy to the public choice approach. Social contract theory has been used as an excuse for all types of state intervention.

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.