Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Gordon Tullock for allowing me to reprint his 1996 article, which appears as chapter 15, and Michelle Cadin and Matthew Block who co-authored with me articles that now appear as chapters 10 and 14 respectively. I thank Bruce Armstrong, Troilus Bryan, Mike Cust, Chris Delanoy, Jeff Dick, and Matthew Johnston for their interview of me that appears as chapter 21.

Chapters 8, 9, 13, 17, and 19–21 constitute new material expressly written for this book; chapters 1–7, 10–12, 14–16 and 18 are based on journal articles previously published. For reprint permission I thank the following editors, publishers and journals: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Roderick Long, and Lew Rockwell, the Journal of Libertarian Studies; the Transportation Research Record; the Competitiveness Review; Samuel M. Natale, the International Journal of Value-Based Management; the Asian Economic Review; Richard Ebeling, The Freeman; Planning and Markets; Etica e Politica/Ethics & Politics; Catherine Pettenati and Jean Pierre Centi, the Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines; and Jesús Huerta De Soto, Procesos de Mercado: Revista Europea de Economia Politica (Market Process: European Journal of Political Economy).

I am grateful to the following for financial support: Charles Koch and Ed Crane of the Cato Institute; David Kennedy and Anthony Sullivan of the Earhart Foundation; and Lew Rockwell of the Mises Institute. I thank Dan D’Amico, Eric Mattei, Eileen Murphy, Brian Summers, and Jeff Tucker for helpful suggestions, research and editing.

A significant part of this book has previously been published. There will thus inevitably be some repetition in the pages that follow. But in view of the importance of the subject, and the desire to preserve these earlier publications, no attempt has been made to rectify this situation. I beg the reader’s patience in this regard.