Anarchy, State And Public Choice

1 Introduction 1
Edward Stringham
2 Individual welfare in anarchy 10
Winston Bush
3 Jungle or just Bush? Anarchy and the evolution of cooperation 24
Jason Osborne
4 The edge of the jungle 36
Gordon Tullock
5 Social interaction without the state 49
Christopher Coyne
6 Towards a theory of the evolution of government 60
J. Patrick Gunning
7 Do contracts require formal enforcement? 67
Peter T. Leeson
8 Before public choice 77
James M. Buchanan
9 Public choice and Leviathan 88
Benjamin Powell
10 Cases in anarchy 98
Thomas Hogarty
11 Defining anarchy as rock ’n’ roll: rethinking Hogarty’s three
cases 113
Virgil Storr
12 Private property anarchism: an American variant 123
Laurence Moss
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13 Anarchism and the theory of power 153
Warren Samuels
14 Polycentrism and power: a reply to Warren Samuels 178
Scott Beaulier
15 Reflections after three decades 191
James M. Buchanan
16 Anarchy 194
Gordon Tullock
17 Tullock on anarchy 200
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
18 Anarchism as a progressive research program in political
economy 206
Peter J. Boettke
Index 221