I have created a monster. I just posted a reading list on free market anarchism on this blog, and I have been inundated with notes saying, in effect, “Moron, how could you not have included x, y, and z on your list?” You are an ignoramus on this subject. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Previously, I only attached a small sample of this magnificent literature mainly, but not entirely, limited to shorter works. I now offer a much longer listing in this regard, long enough to choke the proverbial horse. I doubt, now, that I have left much out but, if I have, let me know; I’m always willing to learn. I don’t necessarily agree, fully, with everything mentioned below, but they will all be of interest in this regard. Anyway, here goes:
Anderson, Terry and Hill, P.J. 1979. “An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, 3: 9-29
Benson, Bruce. 1988. “Legal evolution in primitive societies.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 144, 772–788.
Benson, Bruce. 1989a. “The spontaneous evolution of commercial law.” Southern Economic Journal, 55, 644–661.
Benson, Bruce L. 1989b. Enforcement of Private Property Rights in Primitive Societies: Law Without Government,” The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. IX, No. 1, Winter, pp. 1-26
Benson, Bruce L. 1990. The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State, San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy
Benson, Bruce L. 1991. “Reciprocal exchange as the basis for recognition of law: Examples from American history.” Journal of Libertarian Studies, 10(fall), 53–82.
Benson, Bruce L. 1994. “Are public goods really common pools? Considerations of the evolution of policing and highways in England.” Economic Inquiry, 32(April), 294–71.
Benson, Bruce L. 1998. To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice. New York, NY: New York University Press.
Block, Walter. 2003. “National Defense and the Theory of Externalities, Public Goods and Clubs.” The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, ed., Auburn: Mises Institute, pp. 301-334; http://www.mises.org/etexts/defensemyth.pdf
Block, Walter. 2004. “Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government, Part I” Reason Papers, Vol. 27, Fall, pp. 117-133; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/block_radical-libertarianism-rp.pdf
Block, Walter. 2005. “Governmental Inevitability: Reply to Holcombe.” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, 71-93; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/19_3/19_3_4.pdf
Block, Walter. 2006. “Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government, Part II” Reason Papers, Vol. 28, Spring, pp. 85-109; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/block_radical-libertarianism-rp.pdf
Block, Walter. 2007. “Anarchism and Minarchism; No Rapprochement Possible: Reply to Tibor Machan,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring, pp. 91-99; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/21_1/21_1_5.pdf
Block, Walter and Tom DiLorenzo. 2000. “Is Voluntary Government Possible? A Critique of Constitutional Economics,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 156, No. 4, December, pp. 567-582; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/voluntary_govt.pdf
Caplan, Bryan and Edward P. Stringham. 2003. “Networks, law, and the paradox of cooperation.” Review of Austrian Economics, 16, 309–326.
Block, Walter and Tom DiLorenzo. 2001. “The Calculus of Consent Revisited,” Public Finance and Management, Vol. 1, No. 3; www.spaef.com; http://spaef.com/PFM_PUB/pubv1n3.html; http://www.spaef.com/PFM_PUB/v1n3.html; http://spaef.com/PFM_PUB/v1n3/1_3/1_3_3_block.html
Caplan, Bryan, and Stringham, Edward. 2003. “Networks, Law, and the Paradox of Cooperation” Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 16, No. 4, 309-326.
Caplan, Bryan, and Stringham, Edward. forthcoming 2008. “Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes” Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 9, No. 2.
Cowen, Tyler. 1992. “Law as a Public Good: The Economics of Anarchy,” 8 Economics and Philosophy, 249
Cowen, Tyler. 1994. “Rejoinder to David Friedman on the Economics of Anarchy,” 10 Economics and Philosophy 329
Cuzan, Alfred G. 1979. “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?,” The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer, pp. 151-158
DiLorenzo, Tom and Walter Block. 2001. “Constitutional Economics and the Calculus of Consent,” The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer, pp. 37-56; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_3/15_3_2.pdf
Fielding, Karl T., 1978, “The role of personal justice in anarcho-capitalism,” The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall, pp. 239-242
Friedman, David. 1989. The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, La Salle, IL: Open Court, 2nd ed.; http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Machinery_of_Freedom/MofF_Chapter_41.html
Friedman, David D. 1994. “Law as a Private Good: A Response to Tyler Cowen on the Economics of Anarchy,” 10 Economics and Philosophy, 319
Hasnas, John. 1995. “The myth of the rule of law.” Wisconsin Law Review 199;
http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
Herbert, Auberon. 1978 [1885].The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays, ed. Eric Mack. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund
Holcombe, Randall G. 2004. “Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable.” The Independent Review. Vol. III, No. 3, Winter: 325-342
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. 1993. The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy, Boston: Kluwer
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. 2001. Democracy: The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order, Rutgers University, N.J.: Transaction Publishers
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. 2001b. “Anarcho-Capitalism: An Annotated Bibliography,” December 31; http://archive.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe5.html
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, ed. 2003. “National Defense and the Theory of Externalities, Public Goods and Clubs.” The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, ed., Auburn: Mises Institute
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. 2008a. “Reflections on the Origin and the Stability of the State.” June 23; http://archive.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe18.html
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. 2008b. “On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospects for a Second American Revolution.” June 30; http://archive.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe19.html
Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers. 2001. “The Will to Be Free: The Role of Ideology in National Defense.” Independent Review 4, no. 1 (Spring): 523-537.
Kinsella, Stephan. 2004. “What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist.” January 20. http://archive.lewrockwell.com/kinsella/kinsella15.html
Leeson, Peter T. 2007a. “Efficient anarchy.” Public Choice, 130(1-2), 41–53.
Leeson, Peter T. 2007b. “Review of Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the law.” Public Choice, 133, 253–256.
Leeson, Peter T. 2007c. “Trading with bandits.” Journal of Law and Economics, 50(2), 303–321.
Leeson, Peter T. 2007d. “Anarchy Unbound, or: Why Self-Governance Works Better than You Think.” August 6;
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/08/06/peter-t-leeson/anarchy-unbound-or-why-self-governance-works-better-than-you-think/
Leeson, Peter T., and Edward P. Stringham. 2005. “Is Government Inevitable? Comment on Holcombe’s Analysis.” Independent Review. Vol. 9, No. 4, Spring, 543-549.
Long, Roderick. Undated. “About Market Anarchism: a Bibliography.” Molinari Institute; http://praxeology.net/anarcres.htm
Long, Roderick. 1998. “Why Objective Law Requires Anarchy.” http://libertariannation.org/a/f61l1.html
Long, Roderick. 2003. “Anarchism as Constitutionalism: A Reply to Bidinotto.” December 7;
http://praxeology.net/unblog12-03.htm#02; http://praxeology.net/unblog12-03.htm#14; http://praxeology.net/unblog02-04.htm#14
Long, Roderick. 2004. “Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections” http://archive.lewrockwell.com/long/long11.html
de Molinari, Gustave. 1977.The Production of Security, New York: Center for Libertarian Studies
Molyneux, Stefan. 2007. “Stateless Dictatorships: How a Free Society Prevents the Re-emergence of a Government” June 27; http://archive.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux37.html
Murphy, Robert P. 2002. Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy. New York: RJ Communications LLC.
Murphy, Robert. 2005. “But Wouldn’t Warlords Take Over? July, 7. http://www.mises.org/story/1855
Nock, Albert Jay. 1935. Our Enemy the State; http://www.barefootsworld.net/nockoets0.html
Oppenheimer, Franz. (1914), 1975. The State, New York: Free Life Editions
Osterfeld, David. 1989. “Anarchism and the Public Goods Issue: Law, Courts and the Police,” The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, Winter, pp. 47-68; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/9_1/9_1_3.pdf
Perkins, Richard and Ernestine Perkens. 1971. Precondition for Peace and Prosperity: Rational Anarchy. Ontario: Phibbs Printing World
Powell, Benjamin and Christopher Coyne. 2003. “Do Pessimistic Assumptions About Human Behavior Justify Government?” The Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 17 No. 4.
Powell, Benjamin, and Bart Wilson. 2008. “An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Vol. 66. 2008.
Powell, Benjamin, Ryan Ford, and Alex Nowrasteh. Forthcoming. “Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Rothbard, Murray N. 1973. For a New Liberty, Macmillan, New York
Rothbard, Murray N. 1978. “Society Without a State.” J. R. Pennock and J. W. Chapman (eds.), Anarchism: Nomos XIX. New York: New York University Press, pp. 191 207
Rothbard, Murray N. 1982. The Ethics of Liberty, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
Rothbard, Murray N. 2004. Man, Economy and State, with Power and Market. Scholar’s Edition. Auburn, AL: Mises Institute
Rothbard, Murray N. 2008. “Are Libertarians ‘Anarchists’?”; http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard167.html
Rummell, R.J. 2007. “Yes, Our Most Extensive Society is an Anarchy.” August 5;
http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2007/08/yes-our-most-extensive-society-is.html
Sechrest, Larry J. 1999. Rand, anarchy, and taxes. The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 1, no. 1 (Fall): 87–105.
Smith, George. 1979. “Justice entrepreneurship in a free market.” Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 3, 405; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/3_4/3_4_4.pdf
Sneed, John D., 1977, “Order without law: where will anarchists keep the madmen?,” The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring, pp. 117-124
Spencer, Herbert. 1970. Social Statics, New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
Spencer, Herbert. 1981. The Man Versus the State, Indianapolis, Liberty Classics
Spooner, Lysander. (1870) 1966. No Treason, Larkspur, Colorado: Ralph Myles http://www.lysanderspooner.org/notreason.htm
Strasnick, Steven. 1979. “Justice entrepreneurship in a free market: a comment.” Journal of Libertarian Studies, pp. 433-437; http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_4/3_4_6.pdf
Stringham, Edward. 1998-1999. “Justice Without Government,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter, pp. 53-77
Stringham, Edward. 1999. “Market Chosen Law” Journal of Libertarian Studies Vol. 14, No.1: 53-77.
Stringham, Edward. 2002. “The Emergence of the London Stock Exchange as a Self-Policing Club” Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 17, No. 2: 1-19.
Stringham, Edward. 2003. “The Extralegal Development of Securities Trading in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam” Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 43, No. 2: 321-344.
Stringham, Edward, ed. 2005a. Anarchy, State, and Public Choice, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing
Stringham, Edward. 2005b. “The Capability of Government in Providing Protection Against Online Fraud: Are Classical Liberals Guilty of the Nirvana Fallacy?” Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy, Vol. 1, No. 2: 371-392.
Stringham, Edward. 2006. “Overlapping Jurisdictions, Proprietary Communities, and Competition in the Realm of Law” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 162, No. 3: 516-534.
Stringham, Edward, ed. 2007. Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice, Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
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