Market for Liberty by Fox & Wilkes

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Market for Liberty by Fox & Wilkes Seminal Libertarian Classic Must Be Read
I cannot agree with all the the authors put forward, and given the depth of my own reading I find much of what they say to be dabed on dubious reasoning, but this book earns five stars because it makes it crystal clear that we must have a Libertarian Party, and the next President must have a leading Libertarian on the Cabinet to ask the tough questions and make the case for less government. As an estranged moderate Republican who leans increasingly toward Libertarian (with some limits--the ideal world does not only need the abolishion of governments, but also corporations and banks). Money is not the instrument of convenience the authors think it is, but instead a fictional means for the few to hoard wealth and for the banks to garner interest on money they "created" as credit without any right whatsoever. I completely agree that the federal government of the USA is the problem. The bureaucrats are in chaos, the political appointees are craven, the President is a village idiot, the Vice President is a nakedly amoral war criminal, and the Congress is broken, in breach of trust and in breach of its Article 1 responsibilities. There, the authors have my complete confidence. The book is worthy of a major update, and I would consider it a privilage to be part of a Cato Institute task force that sought to update this book and the other seminal liberarian work, Ann Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness. I would surely be a "not so fast" contrarian in that liberated group, but it is a dialog that needs to be created and printed and distributed. The authors place too great a credence on private property without taxation and in conservation happening by market demand. They are most illuminating when they cite a Senator as saying the IRS is 90% bluff, and call for millions of Americans to stop paying taxes. I would love to see just one Presidential candidate, ideally Ron Paul, but Barak Obama could join him, call on the Nation to have a massive one-day stay home get to know your neighbor national strike, on a Wednesday. My sense is that 75% to 80% of all Americans would join such a call to action, a call that is needed in order to break the backs of the equally corrupt Democratic and Republican party bosses and their totally despicable secret handshake that maintains the spoils systems and has sold the government to the Saudis, the banks, and the war profiteering corporations. This is a GREAT book. I'm looking for a spirted debate and update on this. CATO! Let's do this! Some other links worth a look: Not on Amazon but VITAL" "People Power and Protest Since 1945: A Bibliography of Nonviolent Action" The Health of Nations: Society and Law beyond the State The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom The Corporation Why We Fight The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back The Working Poor: Invisible in America War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War onthe American Dream and How to Fight Back Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas A Power Governments Cannot Suppress The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political--Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, & Corruption I recommend that Libertarians pursue three lines of thought: 1) See my lists on "People Power Protest" and on Non-Violence" 2) Get intimately familiar with the 27 secessionist movements and why they want to secced, all legitimate grievances 3) Jump in with both feet in support of "home rule" where townships and counties are passing tought laws than our corrupt federal government, and also deny corporations any of the fraudulently-obtained rights of "personality. I strongly believe in the abolishment of absentee property ownership, and the rise of localized public cooperatives to replace water, milk, juice, and food suppliers.
Market for Liberty by Fox & Wilkes An-archy is rules without _rulers_.
I have always found it interesting how businessmen (and women) are simultaneously depicted as predatory and ultra-conservative (as in against change). Yet it is only those businesses that benefit from government intervention, the "arms dealers" of old and the "defense contractors" as they are called now, who benefit from predation. When examined closely, business thrives when there is peace, by catering to peoples differences just as much as their commonalities. No one makes a fortune by selling 500 very expensive refrigerators to the nobility. No, they get rich by selling 500,000,000 inexpensive refrigerators, to living and productive customers. It's easy to say that one's particular special interest can only be provided by government: some would consider private roads but not "national defense"; others would consider private law enforcement but not private health care. But all that ignores the fact that every service at one time or another through history has been provided privately. There are many times more private security agents in the US than there are government police. Private business and even employment contracts increasingly stipulate private arbitration as their recourse in disputes rather than law suits in government courts. Why? Because of cost. Private security, private arbitration, are demonstrably more efficient than government police and government courts. Tannehill has taken the efficiency of market competition and extended it to many aspects of what are usually considered "public goods", and done it in one volume. As the other reviewers have said, it is not a requirement to be convinced on each and every specific application of market competition to "public goods" in order to accept the general axiom that market competition creates more efficient answers that benefit more people than central planning and coercion can. This is true if for no other reason than that private efforts tolerate competition itself. If I don't like the same product or service as the majority, I can still buy that product or service. Pepsi doesn't strafe the villages of Coke drinkers.
Market for Liberty by Fox & Wilkes Changed my Life
There are few books that are so monumental as to change one's life. Market for Liberty is one. It describes how an anarchy could work (without once mentioning "anarchy"). It is essential reading to understand freedom and free markets.
Market for Liberty by Fox & Wilkes Instant classic
I checked this book out from the library and liked it so much I'm going to have to add one to my collection. The Tannehills make a stronger case for liberty and a free market in all commodities, even law and protection, than even Murray Rothbard does. I have to admit that I had my doubts when I sat down to read this book, but by the end I had to conceed that even if the system wasn't completely worked out(after all, how can you work out a system based on the free choices of individuals before the fact), it was at least possible. The gentleman who cited the passage about objective law tried to misrepresent the position of the authors. They do indeed believe that objective law is fundamental and immutable, based only on the objective nature of man humself. However, when they talk about "subjective whims" they are actually refering to legislators, and their irrational quest to enact statuatory law divorced from reality, as in fact they themselves are. It is not the subjective whims of the market that are the cause of our present troubles, but those of the government. The Tannehills simply argue that, by removing the pretended authority of government to "create" law, market law will eveolve that much closer to objective, natural law.
Market for Liberty by Fox & Wilkes Important Work
If you care about freedom, read this book. The passages about Defense particularly are illuminating. Government is not anything magic. It is comprised of people of no more ability than anyone else and only can be funded from the resources of the individuals that live under the government's rule. The other reviewers mustn't have read the book very carefully. They selected a quote about objective law, but neglected to communicate that there is only one law/principle in the free society that Morris and Tannehill describe--no individual shall infringe on the property or person of another through force or fraud. There is no such thing as a body of law in the way that we are taught to think of it in civics class. Read the book for yourself.