[Sca-cooks] OOP, OT _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_

[Terry Decker]

It serves as the societal basis in most of L. Neil Smith's science fiction.

Having read The Machinery of Freedom, I find the idea interesting, but a low
probability for implementation.  It requires a major shift in the general
societal paridigm.  Of course, such a shift occurred a little over two
hundred years ago, leaving this country with a society which balances
between anarchy and facism.  The fact that the US is acting as an imperial
power could trigger another shift.

In any event, The Machinery of Freedom is worth reading just to stimulate
the mind.

Bear


>>Your Grace, what was your first book? I'm afraid I'm only familar
>>with the Miscellany and your period cookbook volumes.
>
>_The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism_. Published
>in 1973,  in  print and available from Amazon.com. Part of it is
>about how law could be created and enforced in a society with private
>property and without a government.
>--
>David Friedman