Gustave de Molinari was a Belgian political economist and French Liberal School theorist associated with French laissez-faire economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.
Gustave de Molinari, c. 1849 or 1860s
Anarcho-capitalism is a political ideology and economic theory that advocates for the abolition of state monopolies and the expansion of economic liberalism and market economy through the promotion of
Gustave de Molinari
…tandem with wealth, he argued it would be eliminated through moral evolution occurring alongside economic progress, which was necessary for it. Some anarcho-capitalists consider Molinari to be the first proponent of anarcho-capitalism. In the preface to the 1977 English translation by Murray Rothbard called The Production…
Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), who is credited with coining the words anarcho-capitalist and anarcho-capitalism
The death of General Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War, a war that anarcho-capitalists such as Murray Rothbard admired and believed was the only American war that could be justified
Lysander Spooner, an American individualist anarchist, who is claimed to have influenced anarcho-capitalism
19th-century interpretation of the Althing in the Icelandic Commonwealth which authors such as David D. Friedman believe to have some features of anarcho-capitalist society