The Not So Wild, Wild West
We have presented evidence that anarchocapitalism was viable on the frontier
Image Credit:
Email
The growth of government during this century has attracted the attention of many scholars interested in explaining that growth and in proposing ways to limit it.
As a result of this attention, the public-choice literature has experienced an upsurge in the interest in anarchy and its implications for social organization.
The work of Rawls and Nozick; two volumes edited by Gordon Tullock,
The Machinery of Freedom, provide examples. The goals of the literature have varied from providing a conceptual framework for comparing Leviathan and its opposite extreme to presenting a formula for the operation of society in a state of anarchy. But nearly all of this work has one common aspect; it explores the “