Ep. 32:  Roderick Long interviews BRUCE BENSON
Channel: Agoric Cafe
Date: 2021-08-05

Roderick Long chats with economist Bruce L. Benson about polycentric mercantile law in medieval Europe and among the Plains Indians; whether private law can work outside of small homogeneous communities; causation vs. correlation in the gun control debate; the perils of scissors-and-paste history; the abolition of criminal law; the incentival perversities of the reservation system; the inevitability of the state; and what intellectual debt he owes to the u.s. military.

“Antony fishes” (Samuel Barber, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, Lyric Opera of Chicago):  https://youtu.be/oJE51ww01XU
Western music:  https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/time-for-battle-rgjucra3uvhk0wy3ccr.html
Bach music:  https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/bach-concerto-for-harpsichord-sxyzhsrnlvhk0wy3agf.html
Western blues:  https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/slide-winchester-bhypkbguvkgo48q48.html
Wild horses:  https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/wild-horses-running-through-mountains-slow-motion-rwm-ujeterjxlzdr9f
Reykjavík:  https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/aerial-view-of-hallgrmskirkja-church-in-reykjavik-in-iceland-bbex_py_vukmn91mvu
Shanghai:  https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/4k-resolution-nanjing-road-shopping-street-of-shanghai-vsx9fmx5xikcfsxbf
Cleopatra art (LadyRoseArasarka):  https://www.deviantart.com/ladyrosearasaka/art/AC-Origin-Cleopatra-Visit-the-Pyramid-780396850
Eastern music:  https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/calm-of-the-east-blwbfurnupbk0wy3faz.html
Darth Vader clip (Disney/Lucasfilm, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK):  https://youtu.be/jsW9MlYu31g

Bruce Benson’s books:  

- THE ENTERPRISE OF LAW:  JUSTICE WITHOUT THE STATE:  https://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Law-Justice-Without-State/dp/1598130447/?tag=praxeologynet-20
- TO SERVE AND PROTECT:  PRIVATIZATION AND COMMUNITY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE:  https://www.amazon.com/Serve-Protect-Privatization-Community-Political/dp/0814713270/?tag=praxeologynet-20
- (with David Rasmussen) ECONOMIC ANATOMY OF A DRUG WAR:  CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE COMMONS:  https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Anatomy-Drug-War/dp/0847679101/?tag=praxeologynet-20
- (with Melvin Greenhut) of AMERICAN ANTITRUST LAWS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE:  https://www.amazon.com/American-Antitrust-Laws-Theory-Practice/dp/0566070138/?tag=praxeologynet-20
- (ed.) PROPERTY RIGHTS:  EMINENT DOMAIN AND REGULATORY TAKINGS RE-EXAMINED:  https://www.amazon.com/Property-Rights-Eminent-Regulatory-Re-Examined/dp/0230102476/?tag=praxeologynet-20
- (ed., with Paul Zimmerman) HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF CRIME:  https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Economics-Crime-Original-Reference/dp/1849804311/?tag=praxeologynet-20
- (ed., with Terry Anderson and [eek!] Tom Flanagan) SELF-DETERMINATION:  THE OTHER PATH FOR NATIVE AMERICANS:  https://www.amazon.com/Self-Determination-Other-Path-Native-Americans/dp/0804754411/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Links to other items mentioned in the discussion:

Property and Environment Research Center:  https://www.perc.org/
David Friedman’s MACHINERY OF FREEDOM:  https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Freedom-Guide-Radical-Capitalism/dp/1507785607/?tag=praxeologynet-20
Morris and Linda Tannehill’s MARKET FOR LIBERTY:  https://www.amazon.com/Market-Liberty-Large-Print/dp/1515162826/?tag=praxeologynet-20
Richard and Ernestine Perkins’ RATIONAL ANARCHY:  https://www.amazon.com/Precondition-Peace-Prosperity-Rational-Anarchy/dp/B0006C71TU/?tag=praxeologynet-20
T. Jefferson’s letter to Madison (30 Jan. 1787):  https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-11-02-0095
Robert Nozick’s ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA:  https://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-State-Utopia-Robert-Nozick/dp/0465051006/?tag=praxeologynet-20
Randall Holcombe’s “Government: Unnecessary But Inevitable”:  https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_08_3_1_holcombe.pdf
Michel Foucault’s “Omnes et Singulatim”:  https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/f/foucault81.pdf
Herbert Spencer’s “Great Political Superstition”:  https://www.panarchy.org/spencer/superstition.1884.html
Thomas Paine’s COMMON SENSE and RIGHTS OF MAN:  https://www.amazon.com/Rights-Common-Political-Writings-Classics/dp/019953800X/?tag=praxeologynet-20
R. G. Collingwood’s IDEA OF HISTORY:  https://www.amazon.com/Idea-History-1926-1928-Collingwood-Paperback/dp/B00HS8ALVK/?tag=praxeologynet-20
GRÁGÁS I:  https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Early-Iceland-University-Icelandic/dp/0887556957/?tag=praxeologynet-20
GRÁGÁS II:  https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Early-Iceland-Gragas-Icelandic/dp/0887558321/?tag=praxeologynet-20
Harold J. Berman’s LAW AND REVOLUTION:  https://www.amazon.com/Law-Revolution-Formation-Western-Tradition/dp/0674517768/?tag=praxeologynet-20

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