The Market for Liberty
Linda & Morris Tannehill
When I began reading the Tannehills’ The Market for Liberty, I realised that what I was reading was something quite special. Tucked in this book is a treasure trove of quotes and revelations. This book, in addition to providing me with logical conclusions that had simply not found their way into my head previously, also answered various questions that I had not been able to figure out. For example, while I had been wondering how a person would be brought to justice if the person had murdered a bum with no friends or family, the Tannehills had figured this out fifteen years before I was born (p. 99).
The philosophy of this book could be described as anarcho-Objectivist. Influenced most prominently by Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand and anarcho-capitalists such as Murray N. Rothbard and Roy A. Childs, Jr., this book shows how anarchism is not in conflict with Objectivism at all. If Rothbard presents the consistently-Lockean perspective that Locke himself fails to present, then the Tannehills present the consistently-Randian perspective that Rand herself fails to present.
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Introduction to this Edition by Douglas Casey
PART I—The Great Conflict
“Since late Neolithic times, men in their political capacity have lived almost exclusively by myths.”—Dr. James J. Martin
Chapter 1. If We Don’t Know Where We’re Going…
Chapter 3. The Self-Regulating Market
Chapter 4. Government—An Unnecessary Evil
PART II—The Laissez-Faire Society
“Liberty—the mother, not the daughter, or order.”—Proudhon
Chapter 5. A Free and Healthy Economy
Chapter 6. Property—The Great Problem Solver
Chapter 7. Arbitration of Disputes
Chapter 8. Protection of Life and Property
Chapter 9. Dealing With Coercion
Chapter 10. Rectification of Injustice
Chapter 11. Warring Defense Agencies and Organized Crime
Chapter 12. Legislation and Objective Law
Chapter 13. Foreign Aggression
Chapter 14. The Abolition of War
PART III—How Do We Get There
“If the revolution comes by violence, and in advance of light, the old struggle will have to be begun again.”—Benjamin R. Tucker
Chapter 15. From Government to Laissez Faire
Chapter 16. The Force Which Shapes The World
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Also See
Mises.org Weblog, 23 May 2006
Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D., 14 December 2002
A Review of “It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand”
Nabat, 15 November 2002
Robert P. Murphy, 16 August 2001
Objectivism and the State: Letter to Ayn Rand
Roy A. Childs, Jr., 16 August 1969
