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Governmental Inevitability: Reply to Holcombe

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Journal of Libertarian Studies Walter Block
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Randy Holcombe’s “Government: unnecessary but Inevitable” (2004) is an interesting and challenging, but ultimately fallacious, essay on government. In his view, this institution is “unnecessary, but inevitable.”

Volume 19, Number 3 (2005)

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Block, Walter. “Governmental Inevitability: Reply to Holcombe.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 19, No. 3 (2005): 71–93.

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