It seems that on this forum there are no minarchists. Everyone is an anarchist. As far as I know most libertarians are minarchists, and most Austrian school adherents are minarchists. So how come there are so few (if any) minarchists on this site?

You gotta write a book, or, at least, more daily articles.

This is nonsense. What does “size of government” actually mean? The number, substance and complexity of laws? The amount of resources devoted to adjudicating disputes? to inducing compliance? Anarcho-capitalists do not claim to know these answers - to know just how much governance their ought to be…

Ok, the wording I am not sure of, but I think we can agree on this. Again, this is a bit circular. You talk about individual utility, but what that utility is can’t be determined FIRST without a market. I’m not sure about that. You mentioned freer markets, but Mises explained there was no third…

Perhaps my previous post was not clear enough… How is the state not a result (or a part) of the market? How is the state (or any other human creation) not the result of humans using means to pursue their (subjectively valued) ends? Who/what apart from acting humans creates a state? How is any pro…

New thread time? This isn’t a short discussion. You and I both like to argue. Let me know if you have time to do this right, and I will participate.

I don’t have a good answer for this. I wish it didn’t have to be so important. But it is. What is on your mind with this question?

Well, you seem to be against utilitarian arguments for liberalism, and I don’t see how any argument informed by an understanding of the market process can be any thing other than utilitarian, so I’m wondering why you’d spend so much time and energy studying and communicating economics.

What makes you think that I am against utilitarian arguments?

What makes you think that I am against utilitarian arguments? I surmised that you didn’t think Pentahedron had a valid answer for LS’s question, “Utility and efficiency for whom?”

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LS, a new thread here.

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