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Rejoinder to Holcombe on the Inevitability of Government

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07/30/2014Walter Block

Holcombe (2004) argued that government was inevitable. In Block (2005) I maintained that this institution was not unavoidable. Holcombe (2007) takes issue with that response of mine to his earlier paper, and the present essay is, in turn, a response to his latest missive in this conversation.

Volume 21, Number 1 (2007)

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Block, Walter. "Rejoinder to Holcombe on the Inevitability of Government." Journal of Libertarian Studies 21, No. 1 (2007): 49–60.