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Market for Liberty [Paperback]

Morris Tannehill (Author), Linda Tannehill (Author)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Important Work Nov 22 2003
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
If you care about freedom, read this book. The passages about Defense particularly are illuminating. Government is not anything magic. It is comprised of people of no more ability than anyone else and only can be funded from the resources of the individuals that live under the government's rule. The other reviewers mustn't have read the book very carefully. They selected a quote about objective law, but neglected to communicate that there is only one law/principle in the free society that Morris and Tannehill describe--no individual shall infringe on the property or person of another through force or fraud. There is no such thing as a body of law in the way that we are taught to think of it in civics class. Read the book for yourself.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Exploring the role of government Nov 22 2002
By Blake Elder
Format:Paperback
This book was a fascinating read. When I began reading it book, I was quite sceptical that government could be practically eradicated. By the end of it, I wasn't convinced. The chapters devoted to the subject of defense and the waging of war I found particularly interesting, if a bit unrealistic. Everybody ought to read a book like this, just to explore the ideas it contains. Late in the book, it discusses the power of ideas. Ideas are definitely the most powerful force in the universe and if a majority of people were aware of ideas such as the ones discussed in this book, we would be well on the way towards building a far better world (not perfect of course as that is impossible).
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1.0 out of 5 stars Puerile Libertarian Fantasies Aug 27 2002
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
The Tannehills insist on ignoring the fact that you can't have a market until you have liberty. That is, a market isn't "free" until it is freed of force.

Once you get into the idea of a free market for police and government services, the stage is set for all kinds of wacko ideas, like selling recalcitrant criminals to psychologists because they, as obviously "irrational" human beings, have high research value. The money would go to the crime victims, of course, and so the market balance would be restored. (They never do come up with an adequate explanation of how such "compensation" is achieved in the case of murder.)

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