Index

9/11/01, 171

failure of FBI to protect against, 173

and gun control, 172

Abolitionists, 187, 189

Abortion, 181–82

Adams, John, Quincy, 30

Aggression, 22, 24, 103, 160

as distinct from defense, 24–25

Aggressor, 25

nation, 25

Anarcho-libertarian, See Libertarian

Animals. See Private property rights; hunt farms

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Smith), 53, 56

AIDS, 83, 143, 170

Airport security, 59–62

Anarchy, State and Utopia (Nozick), 193, 196

Arbitration, private, 36

Army, standing, 174

Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 68, 168

Barrier to entry, 111

Becker, Gary, on incarceration of blacks, 132

Benevolence, 52–53, 57, 70

Black market. See Drugs

Bourne, Randolph, on war is the health of the state, 16

Boxing 47–48, 127, 138

Broken window fallacy, 83

Bush, George W. (President), 29, 32, 166–68, 172, 174

compassionate conservatism, 166, 168

empire, 174

Business failures, 89

Capitalism, 53, 54, 67–68, 71, 98, 111, 178

tends toward income equality, 57

Charities, 143, 166, 168

American Red Cross, 83, 140, 143, 170–71

churches, 167–68

donors, 166

faith-based initiatives, 166

non-profit organizations, 82

private, 167, 169

Salvation Army, government money means government control,167–68

supported by Wal-Mart, 82–83, 143

to Hurricane Katrina victims, 143

Coercion, 43, 46, 103

Competition, 49, 51, 61, 70

Confederacy, 38–39, 187

Confederate states, 38, 188–90

Constitution, 27–28, 205

Counterfeiters, 65

Crime rate, 45

Currency. See Money

Danneskjöld, Ragnar, 68, 101, 168

Death by Government (Rummel), 137

Death penalty, 193–96

Defense, as distinct from aggression, 24–25

Defensive violence, 22

Democracy, 199–200

Democracy: The God that Failed (Hoppe), 199

Deontology, 67, 136

Discrimination, 184–86

racial, 130

Drugs, 131–32, 136

laws, 135

legalization, 131, 134, 137

black market sales not taxed, 131

See also Prohibition

Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt), 204

Employee-employer relationship, 88–89, 94–96, 101–02, 106, 110

Employment protection laws, 110

Employees, 96

Economic development, 53–54, 74

Entrepreneurs, 51, 56, 70, 75, 80, 105

Environmentalism, 69, 71, 173

Alaska, 173

free market, 70

Ehrlich, Isaac, on executions, 194

Executions, 194, 198

due process for, 198

Farewell Address (George Washington), 30, 35, 174

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 66

hosted at Association of Private Enterprise Educators (APEE), 66–68

Federal Reserve System, 65, 67, 111

Females. See Women

Feminism, 115–17, 121–27, 182

effect on boys, 122

glass ceiling, 123, 124

homemaking, 123

Take Our Daughters to Work Day, 121, 123

Fiat currency. See Money

Force, 30, 179, 190

Foreign policy, 35

aid, 54

interventionist, 28

Iraq, 172

military bases, foreign, 31

preemptive, 32

See also Preemptive strike

Saudi Arabia, 172, 174

U.S. imperialism, 23

Free association, 38, 105–06

and divorce, 186

law of, 94, 184–85, 189–91

rights of, 104, 106, 186, 191

separation, 38

Free enterprise, 12, 54–57, 65–67, 74–75, 80, 86, 90, 143–44

Free market. See Capitalism

Freedom, 30, 145

economic, 78

Free rider problem, 75, 82

Friedman, Milton

favors school vouchers, 99

undermines non-aggression axiom, 164–65

Gender gap, 129

Gold, 65, 67

Gold standard. See Money

Government

breaks family ties, 58

builds and maintains roads, 78

creator of inflation, 65

fails to alleviate poverty, 56–58

funding has strings attached, 167

funding medical research, 149

celebrities lobby for, 138–39

kills own citizens, 74, 137

laws against peddlers, 111

legitimate function of, 23, 100, 178

limited, 63, 185

makes economic calculation impossible, 80

mismanagement of lakes and parks, 86

municipal, 45

no tax revenues from black market sales, 131

not legitimate owner of what it claims, 100

opportunity cost of spending, 83

owner of levees that failed in Katrina, 77

preventing employment, 144

payroll taxes, 110

Social security, 110

slowing innovation, 73

spending, 81, 132

Department of Agriculture, 81

Department of Education, 81

subsidies, interfering with rational allocation, 79

supposed solution to social ills, 146

unemployment insurance, 110

unnecessary to create jobs, 107–08

Greenspan, Alan, understood Randian principles, 67

Hayek, F.A., Road to Serfdom, 182–83

Hazlitt, Henry, Economics in One Lesson, 204

Health care, 153–54

socialized in Canada, 153–54

Hierarchy, distinct from coercion, 103

Hoppe, Hans

Democracy: The God that Failed, 177

on term limits, 128–29

Ideology, 170–71, 174, 175

Imperialism, 12

Inequality of the sexes, 123, 126–27

King, Billie Jean, 126

in golf, 125

Individuals, sovereign, 38, 191

Invisible hand (Adam Smith), 51, 53, 56

Isolationism, 11

Jobs, 102, 107–08, 111, 135

child labor, 111

comparable worth, 109

Journal of Libertarian Studies, 177

Justice, 193, 198

Kerry, John, imperialist, 29

Labor, 88–89, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108

supply of, 108

Labor contract, 102

Land annexation, 45

expanded jurisdiction, 44

Law, 135

just, 179

Lee, Susan, on libertarianism, 176–83

Libertarian, 24, 38, 45–47, 98, 100, 133–34, 145, 176–81, 188, 197, 203, 205

anarcho-, 98, 178

as distinct from Conservative, 176–81

law, 151, 161

Party, 144

principles, 68, 150

theory, 43, 149

of child possession, 150–51

of children, 149

of homesteading, 148–50, 159

of towns, 44–46

of victim, due compensation from criminal, 196

widow, owns life of husband’s murderer, 194

utilitarianism, 67

view on abortion, 181–82

view on marriage, 180

view on suicide, 163–65

vision for prisons, 196

Libertarianism, 11, 24, 35, 46, 63, 67, 103, 134–35, 145, 159–60, 163–64, 167, 176–77, 190, 195–96, 202

Goldberg, Jonah, attack on 163–65

principles of, 11

Liberty, individual, 176

Licenses, 110–11

occupational, 110

Licensing services, 51

Lincoln, Abraham, 36, 188, 192

Lincoln, Secession and Slavery (Machan), 188–92

The Logic of Action: Applications and Criticism from the Austrian School (Rothbard), 53

Losing Ground (Murray), 57, 133

Lott, John, on gun ownership reducing violent crime, 120

Machan, Tibor, Lincoln, Secession and Slavery, 188–91

Marginal revenue product of labor, 88–89, 105, 109

Marijuana, See Drugs

Markets, 56, 61, 70, 78, 83, 142

supply information to consumers, 49, 111

Market failure, 28, 75, 82

McCartney, Paul, 142

McElroy, Wendy, on Rothbard, 208–09

Mediator, 36

Medical research, 139

embryos, 151

fetuses, 151–52

stem cell research, 149, 151, 152

Men, 123, 126–27

Middle East, 38

Minarchist, 98

See also Government, limited

Minimum wage, 58, 109

Mises Institute, 143, 144, 211, 212

Mises, Ludwig von, on allocation of resources, 79, 80

Monarchy, 129

taking long run view, 199–201

Money, 64–65, 68

Money supply, 67–68

Murder, 184, 195–96

Murderer, 193–94, 196–98

Murder rate, 193–94

Murray, Charles, Losing Ground, 57, 133

Negative externality, 28

Nixon, Richard (President), cut ties to gold, 65

Neo-conservatism, 34

No Treason (Spooner), 44

Non-aggression, 22, 24, 100, 103, 135, 159–61, 163, 181, 184, 196

as non-interventionsim, 11

principle, 11

Non-coercion, 46

North, Gary, on Rothbard, 211–12

Nozick, Robert, Anarchy, State and Utopia, 193, 196

Nullification, 206

Oil, 173

Organized labor. See Unions

Paul, Ron, 15, 212

Peace, 39

Peak load pricing, 62

Police, private as a solution to looting, 84

Politicians, 57, 129

women, 128

Poverty, 56–58, 122, 166–67, 169

Preemptive strike, 21–22, 24–26

Prices, 70, 154

Private enterprise, 77, 80–81, 84, 143

Private property rights, 56, 74, 90, 159–61, 173, 181, 184

hunt farms, 69–71

whales, 71

trespassers, 173

Privatization, 77, 85–87, 116, 155

highways, 62

levees, 77–78

water, 85–87

and E. coli bacteria, 85

Production, 107

Productivity of labor, 88, 89, 103, 109

Profit and loss system, 51, 56, 61, 78, 86–87, 173

needed in Canada’s provision of water, 85–87

Profit, 70–71, 74, 116

motive, 86

Prohibition, 131–32, 136

Public goods, 82

Quality, 62, 87

Quindlen, Anna, 121, 123

Racial profiling, 171

Raimondo, Justin, on Raimondo, 212

Rand, Ayn, 101

Atlas Shrugged, 68, 168

Rent control, 58, 154, 204–05

Rockwell, Lew, on Rothbard, 211

Rothbard, Murray, 16, 53, 96, 121, 163, 207–12

The Logic of Action, 53

Rummel, R.J., Death by Government, 74, 137

Rust belt, 89, 103, 105

Salerno, Joe, on Rothbard, 210

Scarcity, 108

Secession, 36–39, 185–86, 188–91

Bangladesh, as separate political entity, 37–38

Chechnya from the Soviet Union, 36

Civil War, 35, 189

defined, 185

India from England, 37, 186

Jews and Arabs, 37–38

Kashmir, 37

Middle East, 38

minority from majority, 38

Pakistan, 37–38

Palestine, 37

The South, 35, 186, 190–92

See also Confederacy

U.S. from the U.K.,189

Secondary effects, 204

Self-defense, 101, 119, 161, 184, 194

gun-free zones, 119

weapon, 119

Self-interest, 52, 70

September 11, 2001, 171

Shortage, 154

energy, 154

Silver. See Money

Slave, 38, 105, 185, 189–90

Slavery, 57, 184, 187, 188–90

Smith, Adam, Wealth of Nations, 52–53, 70, 155

Social justice, 147–48

should universities promote, 147–48

Socialism, 49, 51, 54, 147, 170

Socialist calculation debate, 80

Socialized medicine, 153, 155

South Royalton Conference, 209–10

implications, 207, 209–10

Soviet Union, 36, 86, 107

Sowell, Thomas, 130

Spooner, Lysander, 168

No Treason, 44

Sports, 125–27

State. See Government

Stossel, John, 99, 100

Taxes, 57, 132

to fund prisons, 194

Term limits, 128–30, 199–201

incentive to loot while in office, 129

incumbent advantage, 200

Terrorists, 59–62, 172–73

bin Laden, Osama, 172

Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), 173

Time preference, 128–29, 204

Unemployment, 108–11

Unions, 88–90, 92–97, 99, 101–03, 105–06, 1110

Buckley, William F., as a member of ACTRA, 100–03

less prevalent in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, 105

public sector, 90–93, 98–99

scabs, 94–95, 97–98, 101–03, 105–06

Yellow Dog Contract, 104–06

U.S. foreign policy, 12

Violence, 25, 94–97, 99, 101, 159–60, 162, 165

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 95

threat of, 94–95, 97, 99, 101

Volunteers, 99, 167

Voluntary consent, 46

Voluntary cooperation, 43, 102

condominium, 43–45

Wages, 88–90, 103, 105, 109

War, 15, 16, 30, 82

American Revolutionary, 189

Civil War, 35, 189

contrary to liberty, 16

effects of, 11

health of the state, 16

in Iraq, 15

on drugs, 16, 82

on poverty, Lyndon Johnson’s, 58

trade sanctions as an act of, 21

Wealth, 53, 74

Welfare, 57, 81, 110, 133, 168

Weather

catastrophes, 69

Hurricane Katrina,

Army Corps of Engineers, 73

New Orleans, Louisiana, 72, 77, 79–80

control

cloud seeding, 144–45

hail, 145

hurricane prevention, 78

Nissan’s attempt to prevent hail, 145

using dimethyl sulphide (DMS), 145

conditions, 86

socialism, 85

Women, 1113, 120–21, 127, 130–31, 133

sports, 130

Woods, Tom, on Rothbard, 208

Workers. See Labor

Working conditions, 88, 109