I have never come across the guy until amazon said I might be interested … is this good? anyone recommend it?
Thanks 
He visited the forum recently, to dodge questions & act a fool.
I’m going to assume the answer to your question is “no”.
Another question I’d have is, does he believe in IP? If no, then at least we could find out how good it is, without sending him money.
I’ve read the book, its alright.
The issue is, if you have a point of contention with the book, good luck trying to get him to understand you because that is just about nigh impossible. Speaking from first hand experience.
As someone who didn’t know Tremblay at all - I just accidentally found the book on amazon - I must say I wasn’t all that satisfied. He makes some interesting points, but some others who I think are blatantly wrong. The book is also not that well structured.
If you have a high opportunity cost; then I wouldn’t advise reading it. If you read a lot, then you might want to squeeze this one in too.
Public goods can be bundled with private goods (example, bundling roads with real estate). Public goods can be produced alongside public bads (advertising). Some public goods can be made excludable with some minor adjustments (outdoor vs indoor movie theaters). Etc… Roads are so cheap that they are trivial. Their benefit is so much larger than their cost.
The only public goods the market will fail to provide are those who’s benefit only slightly exceeds their cost… which really just means that communication and coordination costs are too high.. and the market can be structured to reduce THOSE as well.
For example, instead of each individual purchasing services, they can get intermediaries to do it for them. Like an apartment complex deals with utility companies, sometimes electricity, etc. So instead of each individual haggling and trying to figure out what the best services are, and then paying for them individualy, its wise and cheaper to organize as a group and purchase things collectively.
He had a podcast called “The Machinery of Freedom” which helped me become completely anti-state, but when I started posting at the Grave of the Gods message boards, I learned that he is an anti-social asshole. He’s a hardcore mutualist and considers having children to be immoral.
Looks like a vanity press retreading of stuff people have already written about before.
“He’s a hardcore mutualist and considers having children to be immoral.”
Good for him, then. I don’t think we’ll be any worse for wear if he doesn’t reproduce.
This useless windbag has a book out? I guess they’ll publish anything, nowadays.
Just ignore him and read Carson if you want something intelligent from mutualists; Carson also happens to be a far better writer, imo.
For some context, Tremblay wrote that book quite a few years ago and has significantly changed his overall political position since then, although his meta-ethics hasn’t changed and he still clings to certain things in a new way. He wrote the book as a post-objectivist ancap, so it’s not representative of his current views.
Oh, and his current views and behavior aren’t representative of mutualists either, and most left-libertarians I know of consider him an embrassment to one extent or another. He has mostly isolated himself from everyone, including would-be allies, as a consequence of his own antics.
“For some context, Tremblay wrote that book quite a few years ago and has significantly changed his overall political position since then, although his meta-ethics hasn’t changed and he still clings to certain things in a new way. He wrote the book as a post-objectivist ancap, so it’s not representative of his current views.”
Btw, we can’t thank you enough for copying and pasting a bunch of stuff Giles Stratton said here, labeling it ‘mises forum’ and ‘anarcho-capitalism’, and then posting it on your polycentric blog. As we saw reprised on this douchebag’s blog.
There is another thread about this that you can find one page back.
But the post I made the compliation on might have had those as tags simply because they’re relevant. And the quotes were from more than just Giles Stratton. In either case, the culture surrounding this institution does attract more conservative crackpots than many people would be comfortable with. I don’t regret highlighting this fact.
Do you recognize that the culture surrounding the ALL attracts more economically-illiterate Bohemian crackpots than many people would be comfortable with?
That’s the thread if anyone wants to know. It started off about his post on some blog, then Esuric and Epicurus brought it off topic, and started another thread. He’s very rude, and not a debater.
hmmm, good thing I asked peoples’ opinions. He seems a bit odd. Is he a professor or something? I search his name and it didn’t link me to any academic institution or somehting?
I’m not aware that he has a career.
last i heard, franc tremblay spends his working hours bagging groceries and stocking shelves.
Not for nothing, but the man (Tremblay) called me, personally, a “vile breeder” not too awful long ago. While I found it quite humerous, I can’t sympathize with a person whose moral compass leads him to believe that procreation is morally reprehensible.
Just to add my two cents there.
As for reading his pre-voluntary-human-extinction-movement work… I would read it if for no other reason that to continually challenge my own positions. Though admittedly, I haven’t read a physical book cover to cover in some time.
Not just that , currently he believes that parents law teachers are immoral for the mere fact of them being what they are.
As a left-libertarian I think of him as an example of the crazy among the left-libs.Carson is more readable and takes many better positions than Tremblay.