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The Privatization of Roads and Highways - Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Who is Responsible for Traffic Deaths? 345<br />

contracts. Most probably, they would be rendered null <strong>and</strong> void<br />

for being against “the public interest,” or “public policy.” But we<br />

are now discussing law in the free society, not in its present fever<br />

swamp. Under libertarian law, contracts between “consenting<br />

capitalists” 35 would not be set aside in so cavalier a manner.<br />

35 Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, <strong>and</strong> Utopia (New York: Basic Books,<br />

1974), p. 163 speaks <strong>of</strong> “capitalist acts between consenting adults.”

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