I would, however, take issue with how Boettke frames the analytical alternative in his schema. Pointing to Rothbard and Friedman as the main practitioners makes it look like a relatively recent category, and divorced from the mainline, historic anarchist tradition.

But “analytical anarchism” has in fact been practiced far longer, by anarchists much closer to the main historical trunk of anarchism. Both Thomas Hodgskin and Benjamin Tucker, for example, were market-oriented anarchists at the left end of the classical liberal spectrum. Their thought focused heavily on a functional analysis of statist privilege within the political economies of their time, and on the functional effect of creating a free economy with such privilege removed. Proudhon also probably belongs in this category. For that matter, there are some more modern anarchists like Colin Ward and Murray Bookchin who, while not pro-market (Bookchin) or specifically market-oriented (Ward), devoted a great deal of analytical effort to the functioning of proto-anarchist alternatives within the existing system and the ways that statism interacted with and limited their possibilities.

http://www.the-rathouse.com/shortreviews/Lester-on-Leviathan.html

A brilliant case for the compatability of free markets, liberty and welfare.

Thanks for the correction. Of course, Boettke is responsible for all confusion in the known universe.

Second, I’m not saying Coyne is “more anarchist” than Powell. Really, I just listed the scholars Boettke talked about in his paper.

You wrote,

“i would not exactly link free markets with government.”

Why not? And please be specific.

I have to ask. Is Chris Coyne really more of an analytical anarchist than say Ben Powell? If so, is it because he is more analytical or more anarchist? I bet he is not as anarchist as the person you listed who once declared von Mises, Hayek, and Milton Friedman to be “communists” during a Rothbard Lecture at the LvM Institute (but not Rothbard), and I am not talking about the guy on the list because of his piratical tendencies, .

we should probably be more mindful of the distinction between “anarchy” and “anomy”. freemarkets may/could be anarchic, but they certainly require some set of nomoi to guide the cooperative process.