Reshef Agam-Segal contributes to the C4SS spontaneous order symposium.
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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 41: When Spontaneous Orders Attack, Part 3
Nina Brewer-Davis contributes to the C4SS spontaneous order symposium.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 39: When Spontaneous Orders Attack, Part 2
The second installment of the C4SS Mutual Exchange on Spontaneous Order continues with my contribution, Invisible Hands and Incantations: The Mystification of State Power.
Summary: while spontaneous-order mechanisms are often invoked as a benign alternative to state power, there are reasons for thinking that state power itself depends for its maintenance on spontaneous-order mechanisms – mechanisms that function primarily to render the oppressive nature of the state invisible.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 37: When Spontaneous Orders Attack
Sometime BHL guest blogger Charles Johnson’s essay “Women and the Invisible Fist” is the first round in a Mutual Exchange on Spontaneous Order over at Center for a Stateless Society. Another essay by myself, followed by commentary on both essays from philosophers Nina Brewer-Davis, Reshef Agam-Segal, and David Gordon, will follow over the next couple of weeks.
One of Charles’ main themes is that the concept of spontaneous order (à la Hayek) is used ambiguously. Sometimes it means consensual rather than coercive order; sometimes it means polycentric or participatory rather than directive order; and sometimes it means emergent rather than consciously designed order.
What does that have to do with feminism, libertarianism, patriarchy, and rape culture? Find out.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 35: Paying the Cost to Have a Boss
My latest BHL piece: Libertarianism Means Worker Empowerment.
Anarchy Is Coming!
Here’s the cool cover for Gary Chartier’s excellent forthcoming book Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society (originally titled Anarchy Under Law):
Check out the publisher page and Amazon page. And start saving your pennies! (Saving 55 pennies per day between now and the publication date should do it.)