Pirates and Cowboys: The Signiicance and Limits of Anarcho-Capitalism

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12966
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
• Principal Investigator: Askew David 立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 准教授 (90343722)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: リバタリアニズム / 自由至上主義 / 無政府資本主義 / 公共財の私的供給 / 正義論 / 海賊 / カウボーイ / 無政府主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Japan, research on libertarianism is rare, let alone research on anarcho-capitalism. To focus on anarcho-capitalism is therefore significant. Even overseas, while some argue for anarcho-capitalism, there is little academic research on the topic, and much of the little research that exists focuses on, for instance, the privatization of a specific public good. This research project attempted to examine the potential and limits of anarcho-capitalism from both history/experience and from normative theory. The results were the completion and eventual publication of a number of papers on both aspects of anarcho-capitalism, as well as a call to rethink the role of the modern state and to revitalize modern theories of justice.

Free Research Field

法哲学