David Friedman

"David D. Friedman is the one of the most important living anarcho-capitalist philosophers. He has added a philosopher's insistence on consistency to the firm grasp of economic principles he presumably…"

"Perhaps the best way to see why anarcho-capitalism would be much more peaceful than our present system is by analogy. Consider our world as it would be if the cost of moving from one country to anothe…"

"Economics is that way of understanding behavior that starts from the assumption that people have objectives and tend to choose the correct way to achieve them."

"If we want to be honest, we can ship the Statue of Liberty back to France or replace the outdated verse with new lines, "America the closed preserve/ That dirty foreigners don't deserve."

"The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations."

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"In the ideal socialist state, power will not attract power freaks. People who make decisions will show no slightest bias towards their own interests. There will be no way for a clever man to bend the …"

"We must ask, not whether an anarcho-capitalist society would be safe from a power grab by the men with the guns , but whether it would be safer than our society is from a comparable seizure of power b…"