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BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.

He works from Charlottesville, Virginia, as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante, and a layabout, at least in spirit.

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"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

Murray Rothbard

Benjamin Tucker Marcus
Gone Fishing
July 23, 2008

The Ethics of Liberty

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Introduction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe HTML MP3 MP3

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL LAW HTML

  1. Natural Law and Reason HTML MP3
  2. Natural Law as "Science" HTML MP3
  3. Natural Law versus Positive Law HTML MP3
  4. Natural Law and Natural Rights HTML MP3
  5. The Task of Political Philosophy HTML MP3

PART II: A THEORY OF LIBERTY

  1. A Crusoe Social Philosophy HTML MP3
  2. Interpersonal Relations: Voluntary Exchange HTML MP3
  3. Interpersonal Relations: Ownership and Aggression HTML MP3
  4. Property and Criminality HTML MP3
  5. The Problem of Land Theft HTML MP3
  6. Land Monopoly, Past and Present HTML MP3
  7. Self-Defense HTML MP3
  8. Punishment and Proportionality HTML MP3
  9. Children and Rights HTML MP3
  10. "Human Rights" As Property Rights HTML MP3
  11. Knowledge, True and False HTML MP3
  12. Bribery HTML MP3
  13. The Boycott HTML MP3
  14. Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts HTML MP3
  15. Lifeboat Situations HTML MP3
  16. The "Rights" of Animals HTML MP3

PART III: THE STATE VERSUS LIBERTY HTML

  1. The Nature of the State HTML MP3
  2. The Inner Contradictions of the State HTML MP3
  3. The Moral Status of Relations to the State HTML MP3
  4. On Relations Between States HTML MP3

PART IV: MODERN ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF LIBERTY

  1. Utilitarian Free-Market Economics HTML MP3
  2. Isaiah Berlin on Negative Freedom HTML MP3
  3. F.A. Hayek and The Concept of Coercion HTML MP3
  4. Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State HTML MP3

PART V: TOWARD A THEORY OF STRATEGY FOR LIBERTY

  1. Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty HTML MP3