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Defining Government, Begging the Question: An Answer to Walter Block's Reply

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07/30/2014Tibor R. Machan

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Walter Block has penned a response to my paper in which I argue that there isn’t much more than a verbal difference between limited government (minarchist) and defense-insurance agency (anarchist) libertarians.

Block disputes my thesis for one reason: He defines government as necessarily coercive.

Volume 21, Number 1 (2007)

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Tibor R. Machan

Tibor R. Machan (1939 - 2016) was a Hoover research fellow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and held the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University.

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Machan, Tibor R. "Defining Government, Begging the Question: An Answer to Walter Block's Reply." Journal of Libertarian Studies 21, No. 1 (2007): 91–99.