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• • 06 Oct 07
  • 3:41 pm

  China is wrong to state that libertarians are averse to recognizing pirates. Peter Leeson, an anarcho-capitalist professor, has done a great deal of research on functional pirate "anarchy" (Hakim Bey referred to them as Temporary Autonomous Zones) which has been written about in publications like the New Yorker. See here: http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2007/07/peter-leeson-in.html

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• • 11 Oct 07
  • 2:26 am

  A good blog response is here: http://positiveliberty.com/2007/10/captains-and-the-kings-a-reply-to-mieville-on-libertarian-escapism.html#more-2764

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• • 30 Oct 07
  • 11:00 am

  My guess is that it would free one from supporting the Iraq war and the war on drugs, as well as any bridges to nowhere. If you look at the Fraser Index of Economic Freedom, taxes form only part of it, things like regulation and corruption make up the rest. I don't think the ship is ever going to leave port, but in the hypothetical of it doing so one might assume it wouldn't attempt to meddle in the lives of its customers. Peter Leeson has a paper critiquing such "vertically-integrated proprietary communities" from an anarcho-capitalist perspective saying that if they …

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