The Voluntaryist Handbook

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There exist two blatant contradictions which roughly ninety-nine percent of intellectuals, journalists, and voters erroneously believe. On the one hand, they say that the free market must be regulated in order to prevent monopolies. It is assumed that these monopolies would have such great power over the market that their customers would be forced to settle for products far more expensive than, and inferior to, those that would be offered under competitive market conditions. On the other hand, these intellectuals, journalists, and voters explicitly advocate that one group (government) monopolize the money supply, policing, courts, taxation, legislation, compulsory education, and a myriad of other things that we may consider to be vitally important. Second, the vast majority of people recognize the moral legitimacy of the biblical commandments “Thou Shalt Not Steal” and “Thou Shalt Not Murder.” Yet, when it comes to the practices of taxation and war, these principles are blatantly disregarded by almost everyone. If taxation is not theft, why can only governments do such a thing? Why not simply allow all organizations, companies, clubs, churches, or individuals to issue taxes? It should therefore come as no surprise that governments are infamous for delivering poor quality. Imagine a restaurant where you had to pay regardless of whether they brought food to your table. Introduction Terms What Is the Free Market? Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D. One Moral Standard for All Sheldon Richman Coercivists and Voluntarists Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. Three Thought Experiments Jason Brennan, Ph.D. Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy? Alfred G. Cuzán, Ph.D. What It Means to Be an Anarcho-Capitalist Stephan Kinsella, J.D. Six Questions for Statists Stefan Molyneux, M.A. The Argument for Free Markets: Morality vs. Efficiency Walter E. Williams, Ph.D. Social Cooperation Sheldon Richman The Central Banking Scam Patrick MacFarlane, J.D. Homelessness, Regulation, and Minimum Wage44 The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State (Excerpts)54 Auberon Herbert War, Peace, and the State Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D. 5814 No Treason (Excerpts) Lysander Spooner How Private Governance Made the Modern World Possible Edward P. Stringham, Ph.D. The Misplaced Fear of “Monopoly” Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D. Privatize the Roads Walter Block, Ph.D. The Utilitarian Case for Voluntaryism Danny Duchamp Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D. Is ‘Equality’ a Worthy Goal? Bradley Thomas How I Changed My Mind on Intellectual Property Isaac Morehouse The Case for Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections Roderick T. Long, Ph.D. The Reluctant Anarchist Joseph Sobran, B.A. Individualism vs. War Scott Horton I Was a Police Officer, Now I’m a Voluntaryist Shepard Oakley On the Ultimate Justification of the Ethics of Private Property Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D. Persuasion vs. Force Mark Skousen, Ph.D. and Jo Ann Skousen The Most Dangerous Superstition (Excerpts) Larken Rose Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work? Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Chaos Theory (Excerpts) Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. The “Power Vacuum” Argument Larken Rose So, Tell Me, ‘Do You Hate the State?’ Peter R. Quiñones Government Itself Is Immoral James Corbett The Obviousness of Anarchy John Hasnas, Ph.D. Economics in One Lesson (Excerpts) Henry Hazlitt How Markets Have Delivered More Economic Equality Antony Sammeroff The State Is Too Dangerous to Tolerate (Excerpts) Robert Higgs, Ph.D. An Invisible Enemy Turned Inward Clint Russell A Right-Wing Critique of the Police State Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. The Only Police Reform That Matters Jason Brennan, Ph.D. Welfare Before the Welfare State Joshua Fulton, B.A. Fallacies You Need to Be Told About Michael Huemer, Ph.D. The Anti-Capitalist Ideology of Slavery Phillip W. Magness, Ph.D. From Marine to Voluntaryist Shane Hazel The Law (Excerpts) Frédéric Bastiat How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis Roderick T. Long, Ph.D. The Imposers and the Imposed Upon Jeff Deist Agorism (Quotes) What Must Be Done (Excerpt) Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D. Quotes Afterword Permissions Acknowledgements