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Title: Law Without the State | David Friedman Post by: Tusk on September 02, 2014, 07:42:35 PM Came across these courtesy of Vitalik Buterin from Ethereum, great perspectives worth sharing: -
Law Without the State | David Friedman David Friedman discusses how private sources can produce more efficient laws than governments, making the case for anarcho-capitalism over government monopoly over law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSrf9j2pvmU And David Friedman - Legal Systems Very Different from Our Own - PorcFest X Based on a course he teaches and a forthcoming book, David Friedman discusses the characteristics of legal systems quite unlike any we've known in contemporary Western society. Examples range from historic Imperial China and Periclean Athens to modern gypsies and Amish. David Director Friedman is an economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist. He is known for his writings in market anarchist theory, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom (1973). He has authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1986), Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters (2000), Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996), and Future Imperfect (2008). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRF3djPNIps Title: Re: Law Without the State | David Friedman Post by: cinder on September 02, 2014, 08:26:22 PM Came across these courtesy of Vitalik Buterin from Ethereum, great perspectives worth sharing: - Without state enforcing the law, this guy will probably just run off with all the money he raised. |