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"Medieval Iceland and the Absence of Government" http://mises.org/daily/1121 http://mises.org/daily/1121 Distributed dispute resolution services, a market for
by exratione 13y ago
"Medieval Iceland and the Absence of Government"
http://mises.org/daily/1121 http://mises.org/daily/1121
Distributed dispute resolution services, a market for justice, as the foundation for a society free from most of the issues that plague the stationary-bandit state characterized by attempted monopolies on violence, law, and coercion. A system that lasted many times longer than the US did as a free society before falling to cartelization.
- sageikosa 13y agoI like von Mises (to pieces) as much, if not more so than the next guy; but the rest of the world is well past the societal tipping point of a low-population growth inaccessible insular community. Everybody kept the social peace, because the cost of breaking it was too high: nowhere to go to escape societal retribution, everyone "knew" everyone else or could pick you out as a stranger in the local community if you moved around the island and would get your back-story eventually.
- Ziomislaw 13y agowow, I thought that such form of "government" was book fiction and never attempted IRL. Thank you.