Newsflash, neo-liberalism is a boogie man that leftists attack yet no one claims to be.So you admit that you aren't even aware of the basics behind what you spout.
One of the fundamental differences between traditional liberalism and neo-liberalism is that traditional liberalism was based on the idea that you get ahead and in doing so others will remain as well off as they are or also rise (the analogy of tides making all ships rise). Neo-liberalism is based on get ahead and if that means others suffer then so be it.
Neo-liberalism and the free market fundamentalists we've seen over the last few decades come out game theory and its application to economics by people like Buchanan.
You talk a lot about Hayek, but Hayek did not envisage a stateless free market society with privatisation of the ocean and the like, so who do you go to when you take this further, Rothbard maybe?
In any case the dystopia of a stateless society based on private property and free markets is just the privatisation of the coercive power of government, it just substitutes a private coercer for the public coercer.
DS
Acting as an individual within the division of labour requires social cooperation and mutually beneficial relationships. You don’t get anywhere in the long run screwing people. Fraud is not permitted nor condoned.
Actually I don’t really talk about Hayek much, he had some interesting work but he was palatable enough to the mainstream to win the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The economist I reference a fair bit is Ludwig von Mises, but even he didn’t advocate for a stateless society. Rothbard advanced that and I agree with Rothbard in this respect. Mises was an advocate of democracy which I am not. However the best libertarian theorist around this issue is Hoppe in my opinion.
Your characterisation of a private law society as coercive the same as a public law society is coercive ignores the concept of self defence. According to you, it would be coercive to stop someone from stealing from you.
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