The belief that the wage system, the opportunity to earn an income, and the related problem of distribution of power (including wealth) comprise the crux of what in the nineteenth century was called the Social Question, implies that while certain aspects thereof represent intransigient barriers...

The book reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response to each chapter, as well as new comments by Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Peter Boettke. The younger economists are notably less pessimistic about...