The Tom Woods Show, episode 938.

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Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here. This episode is going to shock some people. If you're coming to

this show for limited government talk, well, this is going to be some tough medicine for you,

because today we are talking about how you might provide law in a free society that is without the state. We associate the state with law.

We think law is something that must be provided by the state. You can think of all the reasons in the

world why it needs to work that way. But does it really? Can we conceive of how society

could be organized without a monopolistic legal system. Is that possible? So we're

going to talk about that today. Maybe the free market can handle everything. Maybe we don't need

Nancy Pelosi for anything at all. How about that? So I'm going to play devil's advocate on this

question with our old friend Bob Murphy, who, you know, Bob holds a PhD in economics

from New York University. He co-hosts the weekly Contra Krugman podcast with me over at

contra Krugman.com. He's the author of many books, most recently, Choice, Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action, which is a great distillation of Mises.

So very, very much worth reading if you're interested in economics.

As is anything, Bob writes.

He's just done an enormous amount, and we are all very much in his debt, and I'm glad to be able to welcome him back to the Tom Wood show.

Bob, thanks for being here.

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