The Market for Liberty
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| The Market for Liberty | |
 Cover of the hardback edition |
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| Author | Linda and Morris Tannehill |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | anarcho-capitalism, natural law |
| Publication date | 1970 |
| Media type | Hardback, paperback, PDF |
| ISBN | ISBN 0930073010 |
The Market for Liberty is an anarcho-capitalist book written by Linda and Morris Tannehill, which according to Karl Hess has become "something of a classic."[1] It was preceded by the self-published Liberty via the Market in 1969.
Like Murray Rothbard, the Tannehills oppose statutory law and advocated the usage of natural law as the basis for society; however, unlike Rothbard who aimed to explain what sort of libertarian legal code the market would create in an anarcho-capitalist society, the Tannehills saw it fit to merely point out that society would not be lawless in the absence of the state.[2] Conversely, the Tannehills, in The Market for Liberty, spend a great deal of time outlining how different businesses and organisational structures would interact in a laissez-faire society, and how these interactions would create checks which would ultimately keep the tendency for crime low.
[edit] External links
- Morris and Linda Tannehill, The Market for Liberty (Lansing, Michigan: self-published, 1970).
- Morris and Linda Tannehill, Foreword by Karl Hess, Introduction by Douglas Casey, The Market for Liberty (San Francisco, California: Fox & Wilkes, third edition, 1993), ISBN 0930073010 (hardcover), ISBN 0930073088 (paperback).
- Foreword by Karl Hess and Chapters 1, 3 and 5 from The Market for Liberty by Linda and Morris Tannehill
- Free audio book of The Market for Liberty (Read by Ian Bernard)
[edit] References
- ^ Foreword by Karl Hess, in The Market for Liberty by the Tannehills
- ^ Brown, Susan Love, The Free Market as Salvation from Government: The Anarcho-Capitalist View, Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture, edited by James G. Carrier, Berg/Oxford, 1997, p. 113.
