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Legal Foundations of a Free Society by Stephan Kinsella

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The complete text of Legal Foundations of a Free Society by Stephan Kinsella is free to read here, split into 32 chapters totalling 304,270 words.

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Chapters

  1. Front Matter177 words
  2. Foreword3,512 words
  3. Preface2,889 words
  4. Acknowledgments1,020 words
  5. How I Became a Libertarian2,456 words
  6. What Libertarianism Is11,290 words
  7. What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist1,300 words
  8. How We Come to Own Ourselves7,597 words
  9. A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights20,941 words
  10. Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights10,303 words
  11. Defending Argumentation Ethics11,142 words
  12. Causation and Aggression16,068 words
  13. A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability15,599 words
  14. Inalienability and Punishment: A Reply to George Smith8,922 words
  15. Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection7,943 words
  16. Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer*3,851 words
  17. Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society23,135 words
  18. Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society18,628 words
  19. Against Intellectual Property After Twenty Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward16,541 words
  20. Introduction to Origitent4,058 words
  21. Conversation with Schulman about Logorights and Media-Carried Property11,289 words
  22. Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce8,073 words
  23. Knowledge, Calculation, Conflict, and Law12,927 words
  24. Review of Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy, and Order, by Anthony de Jasay4,557 words
  25. Taking the Ninth Amendment Seriously12,254 words
  26. The Undeniable Morality of Capitalism11,326 words
  27. On Libertarian Legal Theory, Self-Ownership, and Drug Laws9,872 words
  28. On the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn’t Exist11,562 words
  29. Libertarianism After Fifty Years: What Have We Learned?7,242 words
  30. Bibliography16,537 words
  31. Index*11,053 words
  32. About the Author206 words

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