The Merchant Court Returns
Justice is a service that degrades under monopoly and improves under competition. Merchants proved this; now builders are proving it again.
Private-law
Temporary Autonomous Zones: The Economics of Exit
When defense costs less than attack and property emerges through daily practice, autonomous zones become economically sustainable refuges.
Protocols for the Ungoverned
Functional legal orders emerge from voluntary adoption and competitive governance, not top-down decree; history proves that polycentric law outperforms territorial monopoly.
A Constitution for the Ungoverned
Medieval merchants and diaspora communities built functional legal systems without states; their principles can now govern disputes in cyberspace.
Free Men Will Build the Roads
Nobody asks who will bake the bread because markets already do it excellently; the roads question reveals statist capture of imagination.
The Anatomy of Aggression
Rothbard's typology classifies all state intervention into autistic, binary, and triangular forms, revealing the common thread of coercive aggression beneath policy complexity.
The Price of Blood
Every civilization before the modern state treated crime as a debt owed to the victim, enforced through restitution and community insurance.
The Third Court: Insurance, Arbitration, and the Private Production of Justice
Insurance prices risk, arbitration resolves disputes, restitution makes victims whole, and cryptographic enforcement binds them all into one complete system.
The Market for Peace
War persists because profits concentrate among those who wage it while costs disperse across those who must suffer and pay.
The Constitution That Isn't One
The Universal Principles of Liberty codifies libertarian jurisprudence as discovered law, providing a meta-normative baseline for decentralized justice without sovereign authority.
The Universal Principles of Liberty
A voluntary libertarian legal framework built on non-aggression, self-ownership, and property rights, with decentralized arbitration replacing state monopolies on law.
