As an architect who is also an anarcho-capitalist libertarian, I take every opportunity I get to share how libertarianism would have a positive impact on my industry.  The other day I was having a conversation with one of my engineer colleagues who asked me point blank, “How would we have safe buildings without building codes?”  It’s a question that I expect would be asked by many reasonable people when considering the prospect of building construction in a libertarian society, so I am happy to address it. Of course, his question really was (maybe without him knowing it), “how could we … Continue reading Dangerous, Costly, Crony, Crooked