Making the Case for Private Law and Defense From Scratch

Tags: Private Property, Law, Legal System, Property Rights, War and Foreign Policy

03/29/2024 Robert P. Murphy

On March 26 Bob gave this talk at Oklahoma State, where he was invited by the Free Enterprise Society. He assumed the students had no prior knowledge of the topic and made the case, from scratch, for a voluntary society with privately provided legal and defense services.

Bob’s article, “Libertarian Law and Military Defense” in Libertarian Papers: Mises.org/HAP441a

Human Action Podcast listeners can get a free copy of Dr. Guido Hülsmann’s How Inflation Destroys Civilization: Mises.org/HAPodFree

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