David wrote "The Machinery of Freedom" about tools that could be developed to acheive "socially desirable" effects, such as the lack of a single dominant protective agency, without the interference of the state. He also wrote about how, once developed, these structures would self perpetuate, since there would be few reason to redevelop a state. Good stuff. Well worth reading. Adam Declan McCullagh wrote: | So I just walked home from a party in Dupont Circle where some folks were | telling me about a talk David Friedman gave at the Cato Institute about a | week ago. (Apart from being Milt's son, David appears to be a | well-respected libertarian thinker in his own right.) I didn't have the | chance to go myself... -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume