Michael Oliver witnessed the beginning of the modern anarcho-capitalism movement, meeting Rothbard in the early 1970s. His graduate thesis was on Rothbard's description of a libertarian society and attempted to reconcile Rothbardian thought with the work of Ayn Rand.
J. Michael Oliver
Michael Oliver is proprietor of Momentum Structural Analysis, which provides technical research services to financial and asset management clients. He is the author of The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism (2013). See David Gordon’s review of The New Libertarianism: “Anarcho-Capitalists Against Ayn Rand”.