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Freedom, Society, and the State
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Author: David Osterfeld
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Category: Free Markets
From the author: Anarchist thought has traditionally been associated with socialism and has centered its attack not only on the state but on the market as well. Over the last two decades, however, there has emerged a notably new form of anarchism, commonly termed individualist anarchism or anarcho-capitalism which, rather than abolish the market,
The Bureaucracy Problem
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Author: David Osterfeld
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Category: Interventionism, The Entrepreneur, Free Markets
It is commonly held that the unplanned “anarchic” nature of capitalist production necessitates bureaucratic regulation to prevent economic chaos. Thus the prominent Hungarian Marxist, Andras Hegedus, argues that bureaucracy is merely “the by-product of an administrative structure” that separates the workers from the actual management of the
Class Analysis: Marxian and Austrian Perspectives
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Author: David Osterfeld
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Category: Interventionism, Other Schools of Thought, Political Theory, World History
[This article was originally submitted to the Austrian Economics Newsletter but is previously unpublished.] While socialism and communism have now been thoroughly discredited, many still maintain that Karl Marx’s social theories, at least, remain relevant. While grudgingly acknowledging that Marxian economics, in particular the labor theory of
Internal Inconsistencies in Arguments for Government: Nozick, Rand, and Hospers
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: David Osterfeld
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Category: Other Schools of Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, Free Markets
Those who deny that the provision of protection services could be supplied through either the market or some other nonmonopolistic device must therefore endorse some sort of state. And those within that group who maintain that the provision of such services to everyone within a given territory is the only proper function of government must
Natural Rights Debate: A Comment On a Reply
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: David Osterfeld
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Category: Philosophy and Methodology
In his “A Groundwork for Rights: Man’s Natural End,” Douglas Rasmussen takes issue with a paper I presented at the Fifth Annual Libertarian Scholar’s Conference in which I was concerned with the difficulty of demonstrating the validity of natural rights doctrines in general and the libertarian natural rights doctrines in particular. Volume 7,
Anarchism and the Public Goods Issue: Law, Courts, and the Police
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Author: David Osterfeld
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Category: Philosophy and Methodology, Production Theory, Free Markets
This paper is an attempt to use what is essentially “public choice” analysis- which assumes that individuals will make “rational” choices based on self-interest- to show how the primary collective good, security, might be provided noncoercively, i.e., in the absence of a state. Volume 9, Number 1 (1989) Osterfeld, David. “Anarchism and the