Morris Tannehill

This book was different than what it was sold to me as. It was sold to me as a pathway, a map, for how to get to a completely libertarian society. While there is some of that, it was onl in "Section III" which made up significantly less than 1/3 of the book.

The majority of this book was a step by step guide about how a lassie-fare society would operate, particularly how it would operate without government intervention. While this was very fine writing, had fairly clear thought out points, it wasn't knew for me so it was less valuable than it could be.

There were two piont when I highly disagreed with Tannehill on. One was the idea that once we eliminated the FED, everyone would certainly turn to gold as the medium of exchange as "only gold is REAL money" yet he gives almost no reasoning to back up such an outlandish claim. The second was far worse, though it was discussed much less in the book, and that was Tannehill's idea that so-called intellectual property is rightfully property, and that somehow this would still exist in a state free society, managed and protected by private Databanks. Not only would such continue stifle intervention, it leads me to believe that such a society would be filled with time consing insurance claims and arbitration and a society not significantly better than we have today.

All in all I recommend this book, particularly if you are new to the ideas of living within a completely libertarian society, and even for the old hats it will be useful for section III alone. Even with the two down sides to the writing mentioned above its worth a look.… (mais)