Anarcho-capitalist literature

Anarcho-capitalism has been the subject of a number of works of literature, both nonfiction and fiction.

The following is a partial list of notable nonfiction works discussing anarcho-capitalism. Works by Bastiat, de Molinari, and others were written before the terms "anarcho-capitalism" or "libertarian" existed. These thinkers and their writings are often considered the predecessors of modern market anarchism. Anarcho-capitalism has been heavily influenced by and intertwined with the Austrian School of economics, reflected in works by Rothbard and others.

Gustave de Molinari wrote The Production of Security (1849).

The Law (1850), by Frédéric Bastiat, was influenced by John Locke's Second Treatise on Government and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous, along with the "Candlemakers' Petition" and the parable of the broken window. See also: The State.

No Treason is the main title of three essays in which Lysander Spooner argues that the United States Constitution is a contract of government which was irreparably violated during the American Civil War, and is thus void. See also Natural Law; or The Science of Justice and Let's Abolish Government.

The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically (1908), by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer, summarizes Oppenheimer's general theory on the origin, development and future transformation of the State.

Albert Jay Nock wrote Our Enemy, the State (1935).

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