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4The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property RightsIn Gary Chartier and Charles W. Johnson (ed.), Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty, . pp. 187-198. 2011.
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4The return of leviathan: Can we prevent it?Formulations 3 (3). 1996.Two years ago, at our Spring 1994 Forum on Systems of Law, I suggested that those seeking to build and maintain a Free Nation would face three problems, which I called "the three Leviathans": "Leviathan Past (that is, the dangers posed by the state presently occupying the territory within which the Free Nation is to arise), Leviathan Present (that is, the dangers posed, once the Free Nation has arisen, by the threat of other states existing outside the Free Nation's territory), and Leviathan Yet…Read more
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2Virtual CantonsIn Aviezer Tucker & Gian Piero De Bellis (eds.), Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States, Routledge. pp. 227-233. 2015.What would the constitution of a free nation look like? In trying to answer that question we immediately think in terms of a Bill of Rights, restrictions on governmental power, and so forth. And any constitution worth having would certainly include those things. But if a constitution is to be more than a wish list, it must also specify the political structure necessary to ensure that these freedoms are not eroded or ignored. Consider the old Soviet Constitution, which guaranteed all sorts of fin…Read more
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2Defending a Free NationIn Edward Stringham (ed.), Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice, Transaction Publishers. pp. 149-162. 2007.This question presupposes a prior question: would a free nation need to defend itself from foreign aggression? Some would answer no: the rewards of cooperation outweigh the rewards of aggression, and so a nation will probably not be attacked unless it first acts aggressively itself.
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2This article begins a new series explaining the reasoning behind the various detailed provisions of my Virtual-Canton Constitution. At Disneyland the term "imagineering" is used for the creative process of designing a new Disneyland attraction. I've borrowed the term to describe the process of designing a libertarian political system.
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2The idea of forming a new libertarian nation is an attractive one for two reasons: first, as an alternative to persuasion; second, as a tool of persuasion.
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1Anarchism and LibertarianismIn Nathan J. Jun (ed.), Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy, Brill. pp. 285-317. 2017.
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Liberty in the Ancient WorldIn Ronald Hamowy (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, Sage Publications Ltd.. 2008.
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My Libertarian LifeIn Walter Block (ed.), I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians, . pp. 197-200. 2010.
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AnarchismIn Gerald F. Gaus & Fred D'Agostino (eds.), The Routledge companion to social and political philosophy, Routledge. pp. 217-230. 2013.
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Anti-Psychologism in Economics: Wittgenstein and MisesReview of Austrian Economics 17 (4): 345-369. 2004.
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Hellenistic Philosophers of LawIn Fred D. Miller Jr & Carrie-Ann Biondi (eds.), A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, Volume 6: A History of the Philosophy of Law from the Ancient Greeks to the Scholastics, Springer. pp. 111-131. 2007.
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The classical roots of radical individualismIn David Keyt & Fred Dycus Miller (eds.), Freedom, reason, and the polis: essays in ancient Greek political philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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Thrasymachus and the Relational Conception of AuthorityIn Patricia Hanna (ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 3, . pp. 27-36. 2009.
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Editorial to Symposium: Market, Anarchism, Pro and ConJournal of Libertarian Studies 21 (1): 3. 2007.
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Left-Libertarianism, Market Anarchism, Class Conflict, and Historical Theories of Distributive JusticeGriffith Law Review 2 (12): 413-431. 2012.
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Realism and Abstraction in Economics: Aristotle and Mises versus FriedmanQuarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 9 (3): 3-23. 2006.
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Minarchism on SeasteadsIn Victor Tiberius (ed.), Seasteads: Opportunities and Challenges for Small New Societies, . pp. 91-104. 2017.
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John BrownIn Ronald Hamowy (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, Sage Publications Ltd.. 2008.
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Grammatical InvestigationsIn Kelly Dean Jolley (ed.), Wittgenstein: Key Concepts, . pp. 169-174. 2010.
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Six Theses of Libertarian RhetoricIn Cory Massimino & James Tuttle (eds.), Free Markets & Capitalism?: Do Free Markets Always Produce a Corporate Economy?, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. pp. 139-144. 2016.
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Socratic Philosophers of LawIn Fred D. Miller Jr & Carrie-Ann Biondi (eds.), A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, Volume 6: A History of the Philosophy of Law from the Ancient Greeks to the Scholastics, Springer. pp. 35-56. 2007.
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EpicureanismIn Ronald Hamowy (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, Sage Publications Ltd.. 2008.
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