Rothbard and many others have written about the potential benefits of a free market in protection, law, and defense. These include lower cost, greater efficiency, higher quality, more consumer choice, and protection of individual liberty. In our current political climate, such a system can seem distant and utopian, an idea to be quietly developed by economists and philosophers until people's attitudes and beliefs drastically change. However, activities like the Free State Project raise another possibility. What if a small, libertarian-minded town or county, perhaps in New Hampshire or Montana, passed a law decreeing that town police and judicial services would, … Continue reading Small-Town Anarchy