Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Tue Jan 22 20:35:10 PST 2002



>But again you concede the point. In fact, without a state, people
>can get pretty large private armies together. Others will respond in
>kind, and we enter Nozick's grim world of "dominant protective
>associations," the baddest of which imposes the state and
>libertarian economics in the end.

If I'm the head of the baddest dominant protective association, why the hell should I want to impose libertarian economics? Why not just enslave everybody else, including Robert Nozick? What's in it for me?



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