The Voluntaryist Handbook

318 Pages·2022·2.163 MB·English

by  Keith Knight

First Edition, 2022

© 2022 Keith Knight

Cover design by TopLobsta.com

Edited by Keith Knight

Ebook design by Mike Dworski

Published in the United States of America by
The Libertarian Institute
612 W. 34th St.
Austin, TX 78705

LibertarianInstitute.org

ISBN-13: 978-1-7336473-9-7
ISBN-10: 1-7336473-9-2:

To Edward Stringham, Ph.D., a man who values
truth, freedom, morality, and leading by example.

Table of Contents
Introduction i
Terms iii
1 What Is the Free Market? 1
Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D.
2 One Moral Standard for All 6
Sheldon Richman
3 Coercivists and Voluntarists 9
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.
4 Three Thought Experiments 12
Jason Brennan, Ph.D.
5 Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy? 13
Alfred G. Cuzán, Ph.D.
6 What It Means to Be an Anarcho-Capitalist 22
Stephan Kinsella, J.D.
7 Six Questions for Statists 25
Stefan Molyneux, M.A.
8 The Argument for Free Markets: Morality vs. Efficiency 28
Walter E. Williams, Ph.D.
9 Social Cooperation 38
Sheldon Richman
10 The Central Banking Scam 41
Patrick MacFarlane, J.D.
11 Homelessness, Regulation, and Minimum Wage 44
12 The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State (Excerpts) 54
Auberon Herbert
13 War, Peace, and the State 58
Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D.
14 No Treason (Excerpts) 70
Lysander Spooner
15 How Private Governance Made the Modern World Possible 74
Edward P. Stringham, Ph.D.
16 The Misplaced Fear of “Monopoly” 79
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D.
17 Privatize the Roads 84
Walter Block, Ph.D.
18 The Utilitarian Case for Voluntaryism 88
Danny Duchamp
19 Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis 91
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D.
20 Is ‘Equality’ a Worthy Goal? 109
Bradley Thomas
21 How I Changed My Mind on Intellectual Property 112
Isaac Morehouse
22 The Case for Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections
116
Roderick T. Long, Ph.D.
23 The Reluctant Anarchist 134
Joseph Sobran, B.A.
24 Individualism vs. War 142
Scott Horton
25 I Was a Police Officer, Now I’m a Voluntaryist 145
Shepard Oakley
26 On the Ultimate Justification of the Ethics of Private Property 148
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D.
27 Persuasion vs. Force 154
Mark Skousen, Ph.D. and Jo Ann Skousen
28 The Most Dangerous Superstition (Excerpts) 161
Larken Rose
29 Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work? 163
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
30 Chaos Theory (Excerpts) 168
Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D.
31 The “Power Vacuum” Argument 170
Larken Rose
32 So, Tell Me, ‘Do You Hate the State?’ 173
Peter R. Quiñones
33 Government Itself Is Immoral 175
James Corbett
34 The Obviousness of Anarchy 178
John Hasnas, Ph.D.
35 Economics in One Lesson (Excerpts) 202
Henry Hazlitt
36 How Markets Have Delivered More Economic Equality 204
Antony Sammeroff
37 The State Is Too Dangerous to Tolerate (Excerpts) 207
Robert Higgs, Ph.D.
38 An Invisible Enemy Turned Inward 209
Clint Russell
39 A Right-Wing Critique of the Police State 211
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
40 The Only Police Reform That Matters 213
Jason Brennan, Ph.D.
41 Welfare Before the Welfare State 215
Joshua Fulton, B.A.
42 Fallacies You Need to Be Told About 220
Michael Huemer, Ph.D.
43 The Anti-Capitalist Ideology of Slavery 230
Phillip W. Magness, Ph.D.
44 From Marine to Voluntaryist 235
Shane Hazel
45 The Law (Excerpts) 237
Frédéric Bastiat
46 How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis 240
Roderick T. Long, Ph.D.
47 The Imposers and the Imposed Upon 244
Jeff Deist
48 Agorism (Quotes) 254
49 What Must Be Done (Excerpt) 257
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D.
50 Quotes 269
Afterword 301
Permissions 303
Acknowledgements 304