pull down to refresh
Anarchy, State, and Utopia is one of my favorite books. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Me too. I discovered it in a bookstore in 1989 and it changed my life.
I was already an ancap, but I hadn't read a ton of the literature, yet. Because of that, there were a few places where I spotted holes in his arguments, but I loved the style of analysis.
My wife bought it for me as a birthday present, because she knew I was getting really into libertarian thought and she's really into philosophy.
He was a bright guy. In later life he backtracked on a lot of his libertarian philosophy. I remember reading that he was still living in his New York City rent controlled apartment! Talk about not walking the walk.
Yes, great to see the forward progress. A great example!
One lesson was my first economics book, but my first libertarian book was Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick. That book certainly touched on Austrian economics and also was a good intro.