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NOTE Foreword and Acknowledgements

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Chaos Theory

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Two Essays on Market Anarchy by Robert P. Murphy

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with an introduction by Jeremy Sapienza

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This audiobook version is recorded by Jock Coates in Oxford, England

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All men with honour are kings, but not all kings have honour

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Liam Neeson, Rob Roy

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Forward. This book is dedicated to those who believe government is a necessary evil. You're half right.

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The following essays show that the two most crucial functions of government, law and defense, can be efficiently supplied on the free market.

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The state is thus shown to be completely unnecessary.

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Anarchy, the absence of coercive government, must not be confused with chaos.

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Rather than engage in philosophical debates over values, I focus instead on the mechanics

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of anarcho-capitalism, or market anarchy, the only social system that respects the sanctity

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of property rights and contract.

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Rather than tackle the socialist ideal of equality, I offer the market anarchist ideal

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and the Bill of Equity. I ultimately leave it to the reader to decide which system, state

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or market is the better arrangement. Bob Murphy

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Acknowledgements

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My intellectual debt in anarchist theory belongs hands down to the late great Murray Rothbard

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1916-1995. More broadly, my view of how the world works is due primarily to that fount

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of wisdom Ludwig von Mises' treatise Human Action.

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The original idea and introduction for this book came from Jeremy Sapienza. Robert Vroman

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provided the wonderful, if somewhat disturbing, artwork that so mercifully interrupts the

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The Monopatony of the Text

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Matt Pramschuffer laid out the cover design.

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Zach Crossan and Pete Johnson reviewed an early draft of this book.

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I am grateful for the kind remarks of Lew Rockwell and Jean Callahan, two modern-day

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heroes in the war of ideas, featured on the back cover.

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I would like to thank the participants on Anti-States Forum for their constant, if sometimes

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and crude criticism and questioning of my decidedly unorthodox views.

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Rachel Anne Ferrado played an indispensable role in providing constant encouragement and suggestions.

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And finally, I must thank Ron Pramshofer and the rest of the staff at RJ Communications

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for making it look like I've published before.