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| Author | Linda and Morris Tannehill |
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| Language | English, Spanish |
| Subject | Anarcho-capitalism, natural law |
Publication date | 1970 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardback, paperback, PDF |
| ISBN | 0-930073-01-0 |
| OCLC | 69269 |
The Market for Liberty is a significant anarcho-capitalist book written by Linda and Morris Tannehill. It was preceded by the self-published Liberty via the Market in 1969. The work challenges statutory law and advocates natural law as the basis for society. It also argues that society would not be lawless in the absence of the state.[1] The Market for Liberty spends a great deal of time outlining how different businesses and organizational structures would interact in a laissez-faire society and how these interactions would create checks which would ultimately keep the tendency for crime low. In keeping with radical free-market principles, the book is skeptical about the potential for violent anarcho-capitalist revolution to bring about good outcomes.[2]
- ^ Brown, Susan Love, The Free Market as Salvation from Government: The Anarcho-Capitalist View, Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture, edited by James G. Carrier, Berg/Oxford, 1997, p. 113.
- ^ Tannehill, Morris and Linda (1993). "The Force Which Shapes the World". The Market for Liberty. Fox & Wilkes. p. 161. ISBN 0-930073-08-8.