Polycentric Law

polycentric governance   Tom W. Bell As any cynic will confirm, money and law have a lot in common. But their ties run even deeper than most suspect. Money and law had similar origins: both arose spontaneously out of the undirected actions of individuals seeking common standards for mutual coordination. …

Nature of Law

Roderick T. Long Part I: Law and Order Without Government – Introduction – Varieties of Law – Public Goods vs. Public Choice Part II: The Three Functions of Law – Why Three Functions? – Should Law Be Monopolized? – Locke’s Case for Monocentric Law – The Lockean Case Against Locke …

Spontaneous Order

Spontaneous Order and Libertarian Social Theory– Charles Johnson Spontaneous order theories spring from an observation that the vital underpinnings of human social life include large­scale patterns of interaction and coordinating structures which seem to emerge without — and indeed, beyond the capacity of — any intelligent designer or designers to …

What would anarchy look like?

Anarchism would vary depending on what type of anarchist thought is being practiced. We experience it everyday. In essence, like chaos theory, anarchism could go anywhere, but at its core anarchism would strive for order, i.e. community, society.  At its core is a social network intent on leveling hierarchies, and promoting liberty, …

No Land Monopoly

For millions of years land was free. We were free. If you occupied a space, you owned it…or just occupied it, no tribute asked. Some people settled, some people roamed. The earth was ours, so were its natural resources. Kings and queens, later states, as well as the church, began …

The Libertarian Spectrum

Libertarianism has a complex history and contemporary culture. There are two main camps of libertarianism: Individualist, and Social/Communistic (not state communism `a la the USSR).   There are many slight variations, or tents within these camps, but they essentially fall within one of these two sets, and both camps are socialist. Right wing libertarianism …

Anarchism is all around us

When will anarchism happen? When its time, but it happens all the time if you pay attention to where you are. Where does it happen? Anarchists are everywhere. Consider Norman Yoffee’s rule, “if you can argue whether a society is a state or isn’t, then it isn’t.” On a basic …