Community Watch, Protective Firms & Popular Courts: Defense Services in the Free Market

Under anarchy, if there are no government cops to protect you and no government courts to resolve disputes, wouldn’t
everyone just fight? Market anarchist theorist Murray Rothbard explains why not, offering an in-depth discussion of the mechanics of how people in a free society could cooperate to develop voluntary, neighborhood-based networks and institutions for protection and settling dispute — and of the historical precedents that show why these grassroots institutions could and would work better than government-controlled police and courts.