Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 Part One . 17 The Problem of Deformed Markets . 17 1. The Freed Market 19 William Gillis 2. State Socialism and Anarchism: . 21 Benjamin R. Tucker 3. General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century . 37 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 4. Markets Freed from Capitalism . 59 Charles W. Johnson Part Two . 83 Identities and Isms 5. Market Anarchism as Stigmergic Socialism . 85 Brad Spangler 6. Armies that Overlap 93 Benjamin R. Tucker 7. The Individualist and the Communist: . 97 Rosa Slobodinsky and Voltairine de Cleyre 8. A Glance at Communism 103 Voltairine de Cleyre 9. Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism 107 Gary Chartier 10. Anarchism without Hyphens . 119 Karl Hess 11. What Laissez Faire? 121 Sheldon Richman 12. Libertarianism through Thick and Thin . 131 Charles W. Johnson 13. Socialism: What It Is 145 Benjamin R. Tucker 14. Socialist Ends, Market Means 149 Gary Chartier Part Three . 155 Ownership 15. A Plea for Public Property 157 Roderick T. Long 16. From Whence Do Property Titles Arise? 169 William Gillis 17. The Gift Economy of Property 175 Shawn Wilbur 18. Fairness and Possession . 181 Gary Chartier 19. The Libertarian Case against Intellectual Property Rights 187 Roderick T. Long Part Four 199 Corporate Power and Labor Solidarity 20. Corporations versus the Market, or Whip Conflation Now . 201 Roderick T. Long 21. Does Competition Mean War? 211 Benjamin R. Tucker 22. Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth . 213 Kevin Carson 23. Big Business and the Rise of American Statism 223 Roy A. Childs, Jr 24. Regulation: The Cause, Not the Cure, of the Financial Crisis 241 Roderick T. Long 25. Industrial Economics . 247 Dyer D. Lum 26. Labor Struggle in a Free Market 255 Kevin A. Carson 27. Should Labor Be Paid or Not? . 269 Benjamin R. Tucker Part Five . 271 Neoliberalism, Privatization, and Redistribution 28. Free Market Reforms and the Reduction of Statism 273 Kevin A. Carson 29. Free Trade is Fair Trade: . 279 Joe Peacott 30. Two Words on “Privatization” . 283 Charles W. Johnson 31. Where Are the Specifics? 289 Karl Hess 32. Confiscation and the Homestead Principle 293 Murray N. Rothbard Part Six 299 Inequality and Social Safety Nets . 299 33. Let the Free Market Eat the Rich! 301 Jeremy Weiland 34. Individualism and Inequality 309 Joe Peacott 35. How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis 315 Roderick T. Long 36. The Poverty of the Welfare State . 319 Joe Peacott Part Seven 323 Barriers to Entry and Fixed Costs of Living 37. How “Intellectual Property” Impedes Competition 325 Kevin A. Carson 38. The American Land Question . 335 Joseph R. Stromberg 39. English Enclosures and Soviet Collectivization: 347 Joseph R. Stromberg 40. Health Care and Radical Monopoly . 369 Kevin A. Carson 41. Scratching By . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377 Charles W. Johnson Part Eight . 385 Freed-Market Regulation: Social Activism and Spontaneous Order 42. Regulation Red Herring: 387 Sheldon Richman 43. We Are Market Forces 391 Charles W. Johnson 44. Platonic Productivity 395 Roderick T. Long 45. Libertarianism and Anti-Racism . 401 Sheldon Richman 46. Aggression and the Environment . 405 Mary Ruwart 47. The Clean Water Act versus Clean Water 415 Charles W. Johnson 48. Context-Keeping and Community Organizing 421 Sheldon Richman Contributors . 425
