The professor’s new book is out in English, from Laissez Faire books. Read all about it, here.
Here are just some of the things the book is about:
- Three marks of a state (that the state does not advertise)
- Why a population puts up with the taxes, bullying, and bad service from the state
- Why intellectuals turn to the state for support
- Why compulsory education really exists
- Why and how the state brings about the war of all against all
- Why property rights exist only because of scarcity
- Why every deviation from property rights leads to social loss
- Why modern life is, in some ways, more savage than primitive prehistoric times
- Why richer states are more aggressive
- Why and how the family originated as an economic unit
- Why self-sufficiency is the path to poverty
- Why the Malthusian trap is real and how we escaped it
- Why technological improvement necessarily grows from ownership and trade
- Why the crucial ingredient that ushered in modernity is human intelligence
- Why total privatization is not only possible, but desirable
- Why it is naive to expect the state to ever reform money
- Why the immigration issue is more complicated than either side admits
- Why the best path forward for freedom must include the right to secede
- Why truly just laws must necessarily extend from private property
- Why there can be no religious freedom without property rights
When I get to Bodrum in two weeks time, I shall get the professor to sign my copy. Then I’ll tell you what I think about it. Hint: Probably absolutely splendid. If there are any jokes, then delete that ‘probably’.
