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Essay in Cato Unbound.
I'm not entirely sure who Postrel is, though I've heard the name. But it's an interesting essay. Starts out talking about capitalization, and whether libertarianism is kind of like a religion, and then about four different strands: culture "don't tread on me" and "follow your bliss" movements, and intellectural deductive (Rand, Rothbard) and empiricist (Friedman, Hayek, Coase, Adam Smith) traditions. Of the four, she seems inclined to drop the Rand/Rothbard strand. She also talks about the thread of forces fighting for stasis, in language amusingly reminiscent of the Changeling LARP, which did in fact include the Technocracy replacing markets with controlled prices...
I'm not entirely sure who Postrel is, though I've heard the name. But it's an interesting essay. Starts out talking about capitalization, and whether libertarianism is kind of like a religion, and then about four different strands: culture "don't tread on me" and "follow your bliss" movements, and intellectural deductive (Rand, Rothbard) and empiricist (Friedman, Hayek, Coase, Adam Smith) traditions. Of the four, she seems inclined to drop the Rand/Rothbard strand. She also talks about the thread of forces fighting for stasis, in language amusingly reminiscent of the Changeling LARP, which did in fact include the Technocracy replacing markets with controlled prices...