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Law as a Public Good: _The Economics of Anarchy_

Tyler Cowen

Economics and Philosophy 8 (2):249-267 (1992)

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Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy.Nathan J. Jun (ed.) - 2017 - Leiden: Brill.details Despite the recent proliferation of scholarship on anarchism, very little attention has been paid to the historical and theoretical relationship between anarchism and philosophy. Seeking to fill this void, Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy draws upon the combined expertise of several top scholars to provide a broad thematic overview of the various ways anarchism and philosophy have intersected. Each of its 18 chapters adopts a self-consciously inventive approach to its subject matter, examining anarchism's relation to other philosophical theories and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Law as a Private Good: A Response to Tyler Cowen on the Economics of Anarchy.David D. Friedman - 1994 - Economics and Philosophy 10 (2):319-327.details Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
On the Conspicuous Absence of Private Defense.Joseph Micahel Newhard - unknowndetails This essay offers a standard by which to assess the feasibility of market anarchism. In anarchist thought, the concept of feasibility concerns both the ability and the willingness of private defense agencies to liberate their clients from state oppression. I argue that the emergence of a single stateless pocket of effective, privately-provided defense for a “reasonable” length of time is sufficient to affirm feasibility. I then consider the failure of private defense agencies to achieve even this standard. Furthermore, I identify (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
(1 other version)The Marketization of Security Services.Rutger Claassen - 2011 - Public Reason 3 (2).details This paper discusses the normative credentials of the “commodification of security,” i.e. subjecting protection against (criminal) threats to the market. It distinguishes between a “pure security market,” in the absence of public protection by the police, and an “additional security market,” co-existing with public provision. It argues that a pure security market is not so much unstable (as Nozick’s invisible hand argument for the minimal state implied) but undesirable, because of persisting levels of unjustifiable violence. This does not however, mean (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Feasibility Claims in the Debate over Anarchy versus the Minimal State.Brad Taylor - 2018 - Libertarian Papers 10.details : Accusations of infeasibility or utopianism are common in debates over libertarian institutions, but exactly what we mean when we say an idea is “utopian” or “infeasible” is often left unspecified. After reviewing recent philosophical work attempting to clarify the concept of “feasibility,” I consider how the concept has been deployed in the debate among libertarians […]. Download Export citation Bookmark
Rejoinder to David Friedman on the Economics of Anarchy.Tyler Cowen - 1994 - Economics and Philosophy 10 (2):329.details The received wisdom once stated that anarcho-capitalism would collapse into Hobbes’s state of nature, with life nasty, short, and brutish. The problem of competing governments is the problem of externality par excellence. But David Friedman, among others, has argued persuasively that privately financed arbitration agencies can overcome the basic externalities problems behind social order. Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations

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