I wrote a book review of a work I really enjoyed, and one which influenced libertarians like David D. Friedman and Roy Childs, and I was hoping to hear what my fellow anarchists thought of my review.
Anyone else a fan of this book? Anyone else read it?
I think Seth would like it, given his view of corporations as essentially a part of the State.
A very thorough and well-written review. I may have to read the book! ;-)
One point about Standard Oil that is my new pet peeve. Standard Oil did achieve a high market share, something like 92%, IIRC, but the simple fact is that they never achieved a monopoly. If the point of anti-trust laws was to break up monopolies, then surely they would have to have been a monopoly first. I suppose that they could say they were preventing a monopoly by breaking up Standard Oil, but it would be incumbent upon them to show that a monopoly would have actually occurred if they had not acted.
