The most famous essay in this great collection is Murray Rothbard’s “Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor”--perhaps the best explanation of the division of labor ever written. This attack also shows how statism represents a drive toward de-civilization.
Edited by Kenneth Templeton, this is an indispensible collection for anyone who wants to discover the full range of serious and sophisticated assaults on statism by modern libertarian intellectuals.
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