IT’S DONE. (“Is there no one else? Is there no one ELSE!”) No one left to debate

IT’S DONE.

(“Is there no one else? Is there no one ELSE!”)

No one left to debate with except Hoppe. Time to visit. To beg the master’s patience.

He’ll be annoyed for the first hour. After that. I don’t think so.

He’ll find some set of enormous holes I need to go fix. But I kind of think I’m done. The rest of the work on institutions is purely empirical and I need to spend a few hundred K for hiring some research assistants under some decent Austrian economist in order to support that work as more than just theory. (Mostly on taxes and interest.)

Otherwise…. I might have to fine tune a lot of little bits, but the theory is done. From metaphysics, to epistemology, ethics, politics and aesthetics – I think it’s done.

March of 2001 to December of 2013 on Anarcho Capitalism.

Most of the theory from September of 2010 until now.

Most of it I figured out in the spring of 2011, but it has taken me until now to put it all into a consistent framework where I feel that I can address all the arguments.

The major insight I had last spring, when I drafted my book was that I had not solved the problem of calculation sufficiently, nor the problem of operational language. And it took me most of the summer to do that.

This fall I kept fighting with the various kinds of theft and property rights, and the problem of history suggesting that property rights were imposed externally and unnatural, and once I understood that history was the organized suppression of discounts, the last piece came together.

Put a fork in it. Time for frosting: writing and publication.