Contents
Preface v
Chapter
1 Defense Services on the Free Market 1
2 Fundamentals of Intervention 10
1. Types of Intervention 10
2. Direct Effects of Intervention on Utility 13
a. Intervention and Conflict 13
b. Democracy and the Voluntary 16
c. Utility and Resistance to Invasion 17
d. The Argument from Envy 18
e. Utility Ex Post 18
3 Triangular Intervention 24
1. Price Control 24
2. Product Control: Prohibition 34
3. Product Control: Grant of Monopolistic Privilege 37
a. Compulsory Cartels 41
b. Licenses 42
c. Standards of Quality and Safety 43
d. Tariffs 47
e. Immigration Restrictions 52
f. Child Labor Laws 55
g. Conscription 56
h. Minimum Wage Laws and Compulsory Unionism 56
i. Subsidies to Unemployment 57
j. Penalties on Market Forms 58
k. Antitrust Laws 59
l. Outlawing Basing-Point Pricing 63 [p. xii]
m. Conservation Laws 63
n. Patents 71
o. Franchises and “Public Utilities” 75
p. The Right of Eminent Domain 76
q. Bribery of Government Officials 77