public_off Anarcho-Capitalism

Political philosophy advocating stateless capitalism

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"No government should have the right to prevent another government from going into competition with it, or to require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this commodity."

de Molinari, Gustave event 1849

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Against Intellectual Property

person Kinsella, Stephan event 2008

Drawing on Austrian property rights theory and the insight that ideas are non-scarce goods, argues that patents and copyrights are not natural righ...

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Anatomy of the State

person Rothbard, Murray event 1974

Concise treatise analyzing the nature and origins of the state, arguing that the state is fundamentally an organization based on aggression rather ...

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Democracy: The God That Failed

person Hoppe, Hans-Hermann event 2001

Controversial critique of democracy from a libertarian perspective, arguing that monarchy is economically and ethically superior to democracy, and ...

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Legal Foundations of a Free Society

person Kinsella, Stephan event 2023

A comprehensive collection of revised essays spanning three decades of libertarian legal theory, covering the foundations of rights, punishment, co...

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The Production of Security

person de Molinari, Gustave event 1849

Molinari's short but explosive 1849 essay, the first systematic argument that security and defense, like any other commodity, should be produced by...

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Hoppe, Hans-Hermann

German-American economist and political theorist, student of Murray Rothbard, known for his work on private property and anarcho-capitalism

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Kinsella, Stephan

American patent attorney turned anarcho-capitalist legal theorist and the most rigorous critic of intellectual property within the libertarian trad...

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de Molinari, Gustave

Belgian-born French economist, editor of the Journal des Économistes, and the first thinker to propose a fully free market in security and defense,...

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Rothbard, Murray

American economist and political theorist, leading figure in the Austrian School and anarcho-capitalism, founder of modern libertarianism

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