About this book
In this short, influential treatise Murray Rothbard sets out what the State is and what it is not. He defines it as the organization that holds a monopoly on force and funds itself through coercion rather than voluntary exchange. Drawing on Oppenheimer and Nock, he portrays the State as a predatory institution that seizes wealth, distorts incentives, and cloaks its true nature behind a veneer of legitimacy.
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