The Tahltan have lived in and around the Klappan Valley since before there were any states at all in North America.

[The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property • By Jeremy Waldron • Cambridge University Press, 2012 • xiv + 118 pages]

Robert Frank is a Cornell University economist who has written a series of books and articles kvetching about the enormous social damage allegedly wrought by competition in American life.

Can a community without a central government avoid descending into chaos and rampant criminality? Can its economy grow and thrive without the intervening regulatory hand of the state? Can its disputes be settled without a monopoly on legal judgments?

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“Law and the State are both conceptually and historically separable, and law would develop in an anarchistic market society without any form of State.

[Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. By Peter J. Boettke. Independent Institute — Universidad Francisco Marroquin. xx + 435 pages]