Liberdade de Expressão

quarta-feira, julho 02, 2003

 

Anarco-Capitalismo na Islândia Medieval

[M]edieval Icelandic institutions have several peculiar and interesting characteristics; they might almost have been invented by a mad economist to test the lengths to which market systems could supplant government in its most fundamental functions. Killing was a civil offense resulting in a fine paid to the survivors of the victim. Laws were made by a "parliament," seats in which were a marketable commodity. Enforcement of law was entirely a private affair. And yet these extraordinary institutions survived for over three hundred years, and the society in which they survived appears to have been in many ways an attractive one. Its citizens were, by medieval standards, free; differences in status on rank or sex were relatively small; and its literary output in relation to its size has been compared, with some justice, to that of Athens.

David Friedman (1979,400)

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