The Case for the Stateless Society: Law

Chamberlin Antón () and Block Walter E. ()
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Chamberlin Antón: Joseph A. Butt, S.J. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, 6363 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118
Block Walter E.: Ph. D., Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, Joseph A. Butt, S.J. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, 6363 St. Charles Avenue, Box 15, Miller Hall 318, New Orleans, LA 70118; phone: (504) 864 7934; fax: (504) 864 7970

Acta Economica Et Turistica, 2017, vol. 3, issue 2, 103-118

Abstract: What is the argument against government? There are several. For one thing, there is automatic exit for failure: businesses that do not earn a profit go bankrupt, and their resources tend to migrate to other, more effective, managers. For another, entrepreneurs operate with their own funds, or those voluntarily entrusted to them. This does not apply to bureaucrats and politicians, in sharp contrast. Perhaps most important, in the case of each and every commercial interaction in the market, buying, selling, renting, lending, borrowing, there is mutual gain at least in the ex ante sense of anticipations, and usually ex post, after the trade, as well. This rarely occurs under statism, at least not with regard to its source of funds, taxation, since it is not voluntary. An exception would be the relatively unimportant cases in which a consumer purchases something from the government, such as a ticket to cross a bridge, or a producer sells something to this organization, such as an airplane. The present paper is an attempt to elaborate upon this considerations.

Keywords: government; anarchism; libertarianism; justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/aet-2017-0012

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