Feasibility Claims in the Debate over Anarchy versus the Minimal State

Libertarian Papers 10 (2018)
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: Accusations of infeasibility or utopianism are common in debates over libertarian institutions, but exactly what we mean when we say an idea is “utopian” or “infeasible” is often left unspecified. After reviewing recent philosophical work attempting to clarify the concept of “feasibility,” I consider how the concept has been deployed in the debate among libertarians […]

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia.Robert Nozick - 1974 - New York: Basic Books.
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia.Robert Nozick - 1974 - Philosophy 52 (199):102-105.
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