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Books:
Morris and Linda Tannehill - The Market for Liberty (complete book online)
Morris and Linda Tannehill, 1970 (second edition, Fox & Wilkes, 1984)
Bruce Benson - The Enterprise of Law: Justice without the State
Pacific Research Institute, 1990
Fred Foldvary - Public Goods and Private Communities:
The Market Provision of Social Services
Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994
Robert C. Ellickson - Order Without Law : How Neighbors Settle Disputes
Harvard University Press, 1994
Bruce Benson - To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice
New York University Press, 1998
David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok (ed.) -
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society
University of Michigan Press / Independent Institute, 2002
Hans Hermann-Hoppe (ed.) - The Myth of National Defense
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2003
Bob Black - Justice, Primitive and Modern
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2003
Articles:
Gustave de Molinari - The Production of Security (pdf)Journal des Economistes, 1849
Benjamin R. Tucker - The Bill for Justice: Who Should Pay It?
Liberty, Vol. 9, No. 49, Saturday, March 24, 1894, Whole No. 283
Murray Rothbard - Defense Services on the Free Market
in Power and Market, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1970
David Friedman - Police, Courts, and Laws-on the Market
in The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to A Radical Capitalism, Open Court, 1973 (1989 second edition)
John D. Sneed - Order without Law: Where will Anarchists Keep the Madmen ? (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1977
Karl T. Fielding - The Role of Personal Justice in Anarcho-capitalism (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1978
T. L. Anderson & P.J. Hill - An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1, 1979
David Friedman - Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case
Journal of Legal Studies 8, 1979
Murray Rothbard - Pennsylvania's Anarchist Experiment: 1681-1690
Barranco Galt - Libertarian Ireland
Alfred G. Cuzan - Do we ever really get out of Anarchy? (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1979
Karl T. Fielding - Nonexcludability and Government Financing of Public Goods (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1979
George H. Smith - Justice Entrepreneurship in a Free Market (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1979
- Randy E. Barnett - Comment on Smith (pdf)
- Steven Strasnick - Comment on Smith (pdf)
- Robert L. Formaini - Comment on Smith (pdf)
- George H. Smith - Reply to Critics (pdf)
Charles J. King - A Rationale for Punishment (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1980
Murray Rothbard - Law, Property, Rights, and Air Pollution (pdf)
Cato Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1982), pp. 55-99. Also in: Murray Rothbard - The Logic of Action Volume Two (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 121-170.
Max O'Connor - Private Police and the Free Rider Problem (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Political Notes, 17, 1983
Bruce L. Benson - Guns for Protection, and Other Private Sector Responses to the Government's Failure to Control Crime (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 8, Num. 1, 1986
Stephen Davies - The Private Supply of `Public Goods' in Nineteenth Century Britain (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Historical Notes, 03, 1988
Matthew O'Keeffe - Retribution versus Restitution (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Legal Notes, 05, 1988
Bruce L. Benson - Enforcement of Private Property Rights in Primitive
Societies: Law without Government (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 9, Num. 1, 1989
Hans-Hermann Hoppe - Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 9, Num. 1, 1989
David Osterfeld - Anarchism and the Public Goods Issue: Law, Courts, and the Police (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 9, Num. 1, 1989
Chris R. Tame - On the Side of the Angels: A View of Private Policing (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Political Notes, 40, 1989
Nick Roberts - In Praise of Jackals: Assassination and Moral Defence Policy (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Foreign Policy Perspectives, 15, 1989
David Friedman - Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case
Liberty 2, no. 6,July, 1989, pp. 37-40
Bruce L. Benson - Customary Law With Private Means of Resolving Disputes and Dispensing Justice: A Description Of a Modern System of Law and Order Without State Coercion (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 9 Num. 2, 1990
Birgir T. Runolfsson Solvason - Ordered Anarchy, State, and Rent-Seeking: The Icelandic Commonwealth
Dissertation in Economics, George Mason University, 1991
Bruce L. Benson - Reciprocal Exchange as the Basis for Recognition Of Law: Examples from American History (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 10, Num. 1, 1991
Tom W. Bell - Privately Produced Law (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Legal Notes, 16, 1991
Albert Loan - Institutional Bases of the Spontaneous Order: Surety and Assurance
Humane Studies Review, Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 1991/92
Tom W. Bell - Polycentric Law
Humane Studies Review, Volume 7, Number 1 Winter 1991/92
Birgir T. Runolfsson Solvason - Ordered Anarchy: Evolution of the Decentralized Legal Order in the Icelandic Commonwealth
Icelandic Economic Papers 17, 1992
Tom W. Bell - The Jurisprudence Of Polycentric Law
Unpublished Manuscript, Chicago, Illinois, August, 1992
Birgir T. Runolfsson Solvason - Institutional Evolution in the Icelandic Commonwealth (pdf)
Constitutional Political Economy 4, No. 1, pp. 97-125.
Gary Greenberg - Legal Systems Under Anarcho-Capitalism (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Legal Notes, 18, 1993
Adam Chacksfield - Polycentric Law Versus the Minimal State: The Case of Air Pollution (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Political Notes, 76, 1993
Roderick T. Long - The Decline and Fall of Private Law in Iceland
Formulations 1, No. 3, Spring, 1994
Barry Macleod-Cullinane - Lon L. Fuller and the Enterprise of Law (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Legal Notes, 22, 1995
Stephan N. Kinsella - Rationalism, Legislation, and Law (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 11, Num. 2, 1995
Stefan Blankertz - Courts, Judges, And The Law In The Free City
European Libertarian Convention, Amsterdam, 1996
Christian Michel - Should Criminals be Punished ?
Edited and annotated transcript of a talk delivered at a conference in Katowice, Poland, November 1996
David Friedman - Anarchy and Efficient Law
For and Against the State (ed. John T. Sanders and Jan Narveson),Rowman & Littlefield, 1996, p. 235-253
Stephan N. Kinsella - Punishment and Proportionality: the Estoppel Approach (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 12, Num. 1, 1996
Bruce L. Benson - Restitution in Theory and Practice (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1996
Bryan Caplan - The Economics of Non-State Legal Systems (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Legal Notes, 26, 1997
Gareth Williams - Free Market Defence: Anarchist Insurance Will Work Best (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Economic Notes, 77, 1997
Tom W. Bell - Polycentric Law in the New Millennium
Essay submitted to the Mont Pelerin Society, 1998
Hans-Hermann Hoppe - The Private Production of Defence (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1998-1999
Edward Stringham - Market Chosen Law (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 14, Num. 1, 1998-1999
Stephan N. Kinsella - Inalienability and Punishment: A Reply to George Smith
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 14, Num. 1, 1998-1999
Patrick Tinsley - Private Police: A Note (pdf)
Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 14, Num. 1, 1998-1999
Kai Konrad and Stergios Skaperdas - The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State
Center for Economic Policy Research, Discussion Paper No. 2173, 1999
Frank van Dun - Kritarchy
July 18, 1999 (last revised May 2003)
Michael van Notten - From Nation-State To Stateless Nation, The Somali Experience
Michael van Notten, April 24, 2000
Joseph R. Stromberg - Gustave de Molinari on States and Defense
Antiwar.com, July 25, 2000
Christian Michel - Restitution: Justice in a Stateless Society (pdf)
Libertarian Alliance, Legal Notes, 33, 2000
Stefan Blankertz - Has the State Always Been There? How Tribal Anarchy Works
Paper presented ISIL Conference, London, Ontario, July 2000
Allen Wilhite - Seeking Protection and the Origin of the State (pdf)
Society for Computational Economics, 2001
Bruno S. Frey - A Utopia? Government Without Territorial Monopoly (pdf)
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Volume 6, Number 1, Summer 2001
Richard A. Garner - If Hobbes is Right, Then he is Wrong: Why Social Order Can Arise Without a State Amongst Hobbesian People
Against Politics, April, 2002
Roderick T. Long - Privatization, Viking Style: Model or Misfortune?
Lew Rockwell.com, June 6, 2002
Thomas Whiston - Medieval Iceland and the Absence of Government
Ludwig von Mises Institute, Daily Articles, December 25, 2002
Llewellyn H. Rockwell - The National Defense Myth
Lew Rockwell.com, October 23, 2003
Hans-Hermann Hoppe - The Myth of National Defense (Introduction)
Ludwig von Mises Institute, October 24, 2003
Peter J. Boettke - Anarchism as a Progressive Research Program in Political Economy (pdf)
George Mason University, Working Papers in Economics, 2004
Per Bylund - Competition in Private Justice
Strike-the-Root, March 5, 2004
Roderick T. Long - Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections
Lew Rockwell.com, August 19, 2004
Silas Barta - Public Goods: Not a Problem. A Study of an Extreme Case
Anti-State.com, February 21, 2005
Robert Murphy - What Are You Calling 'Anarchy'?
Ludwig von Mises Institute, April 01, 2005
Robert Murphy - But Wouldn't Warlords Take Over?
Ludwig von Mises Institute, July 07, 2005
