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Hakluyt
11-24-2005, 06:13 AM
Hoppe is one of the few bright spots of the Austrian school, and largely because he deviates from their doctrines in a number ways


The Rise and Fall of the City
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

http://www.mises.org/story/1959

More interesting than the question of what a government is, however, are the following: How is it possible that one judge can acquire a judiciary monopoly, given that other judges will naturally oppose any such attempt; and what specifically makes it possible, and what does it imply, to establish a monopoly of law and order in a big city, i.e., over a territory with ethnically, tribally, or racially mixed populations?