policy Libertarianism
Political philosophy emphasizing individual liberty
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"Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property."
menu_book Democracy: The God That Failed
View Full Quote"Without the erroneous public perception and judgment of the state as just and necessary and without the public's voluntary cooperation, even the seemingly most powerful government would implode and its powers evaporate. Thus liberated, we would regain our right to self-defense and be able to turn to freed and unregulated insurance agencies for efficient professional assistance in all matters of protection and conflict resolution."
menu_book The Private Production of Defense
View Full Quote"Ideas are not naturally scarce. However, by recognizing a right in an ideal object, one creates scarcity where none existed before."
menu_book Against Intellectual Property
View Full Quote"By inventing a new technique for digging a well, the inventor can prevent all others in the world from digging wells in this manner."
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Against Intellectual Property
Drawing on Austrian property rights theory and the insight that ideas are non-scarce goods, argues that patents and copyrights are not natural righ...
Read MoreAnarchy, State, and Utopia
Influential defense of libertarian political philosophy arguing for the minimal state limited to protection against force, theft, and fraud, and ex...
Read MoreAnatomy of the State
Concise treatise analyzing the nature and origins of the state, arguing that the state is fundamentally an organization based on aggression rather ...
Read MoreThe Ethics of Liberty
Comprehensive philosophical treatise establishing a natural rights foundation for libertarianism, deriving property rights from self-ownership and ...
Read MoreLegal Foundations of a Free Society
A comprehensive collection of revised essays spanning three decades of libertarian legal theory, covering the foundations of rights, punishment, co...
Read MoreThe Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production
An anthology of essays edited by [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](/library/authors/hoppe-hans-hermann/) challenging the conventional argument that defense is a...
Read MoreThe Private Production of Defense
In a free market, private insurance agencies competing for clients can deliver security and conflict resolution more efficiently and fairly than st...
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