• A Spontaneous Order

  • The Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society
  • By: Chase Rachels
  • Narrated by: Graham Wright
  • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (68 ratings)

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A Spontaneous Order

By: Chase Rachels
Narrated by: Graham Wright
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A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society is an astonishingly concise, rigorous, and accessible presentation of anarcho-capitalist ideals. It covers a wide range of topics including: money and banking, monopolies and cartels, insurance, health care, law, security, poverty, education, environmentalism, and more! To enjoy this compelling listen requires no previous political, philosophical, or economic knowledge as all uncommon concepts are defined and explained in a simple yet uncompromising manner. Take heed, this work is liable to cause radical paradigm shifts in your understanding of both the state and free market.

©2015 Christopher Chase Rachels (P)2016 Christopher Chase Rachels

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Great content, shame about sleep-inducing audio

The comuter-generated voice was mind numbing. You will be listening to a sampled voice, which works for phone menus, but in a long book you will be listening to 10,000 sentences with the exact same bland tone and vocal inflection AS EVERY OTHER SENTENCE. You will be asleep after a short time. This type of audio should be free or public domain, not charged at a price like a human recording.
I recommend this excellent book 100% for its content, but please buy the hard copy, unless you can find an audio version recorded by an actual human being.

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Fantastic read - Sound quality terrible

Content was so good I had to finish it but the narration was almost unbarable

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Awesome content

Content was great but the reader could have had more life, enthusiasm and passion for the subject.

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"End the State. Free the Market. Liberate your Mind"

after I finished Chase Rachels' Spontaneous Order, I could think of nothing so much as, Pierre-Simon Laplace's, oft quoted, expiation to Napoleon when he asked about, the lack of God, in his theory.
"I have no need for that hypothesis"

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Top 10

One of the greatest books available on why and how we should have a voluntary society.

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Compelling, complete and controversial

Very intriguing. I may be a voluntaryist now! What a delightful surprise and profoundly helpful

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starts excruciatingly textbookish, finishes free.

Once surviving the first few chapters, it became a joy. it's nice to hear anarchy defined and intelligently defended.

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Great book, great info, bad narrator.

In audible app change speed setting to 1.25 instead of 1. You'll thank me later.

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Circular logic

"I believe that government is bad."
This assumption is made early and repeated throughout the book.
"The solution to the bad government is no government."
This theoretical and empirically unproven and historically unfounded argument is the basis for every chapter.

I am left disappointed that this is just another "my political theory is the best and anyone who disagrees is a ________." This author and his readers would benefit greatly from reading Francis Fukuyama or Jared Diamond or really anyone who offers a balanced approach on the perils of putting too much trust in government (a libertarian concept) while at the same time having some sense of the context within which government exists.

I actually agree with some ideas supported by this book, but I strongly caution anyone against following the illogical train of thought that this book uses to convert a priori assumptions into hard and fast conclusions with no basis.

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There are better books to read on the subject.

He presents no original ideas and just regurgitates what has been already been said by liberty minded individuals. A better book would be "For a New Liberty" by Murray Rothbard, "A Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich A. Hayek, "The Machinery of Freedom" by David Freedman, "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan, etc. I could keep going on an on with the recommendations. Just know there are much better books to read on this subject.

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