Cantillon’s Paradise links to what appears to be a wonderful paper by Bruce Benson, still in working paper format: “The Spontaneous Evolution of Cyber Law: Norms, Property Rights, Contracting, Dispute Resolution and Enforcement Without the State.”
Benson’s entire research program has been to draw from several traditions of thought, including Austrian, to explain the emergence of legal order in absense of the state, and here he presents the case that many have imagined but few have formalized: that human action alone explains the wonderful workings of the internet world.
