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Individualist market anarchist Laurance Labadie, the son of Benjamin Tucker's associate Joseph Labadie, criticized anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard for his support of free market private court system and opposition to Lysander Spooner's Jury nullification.when Mr. Rothbard quibbles about the jurisprudential ideas of Spooner and Tucker, and at the same time upholds presumably in his courts the very economic evils which are at bottom the very reason for human contention and conflict, he would seem to be a man who chokes at a gnat while swallowing a camel.
=== Fraud and breach of contract === The problem is that, in most people's minds, "fraud" basically means misrepresenting the truth – i.e., lying. But clearly merely lying is not a rights violation. I think imprecise use of "fraud" permits it to be used to arrive at unlibertarian conclusions. It is imperative to understand it properly and to integrate it into libertarian theory in a way that is compatible with our notions of property and rights and aggression. There is a debate among anarcho-capitalists about how to codify the concepts and standards for 'fraud' and 'breach of contract'. Mark D. Friedman notes that fraud does not easily fit under initiation of force or aggression, thereby not violating a literal interpretation of the non-aggression principle. He argues that libertarians cannot equate fraud to theft because property is not taken in the same way; he writes "Although the victim [hands over property] only because he has been duped, he nevertheless elects to entrust his property to the perpetrator." However, fraud may still be rendered unjust since the fraudster "intentionally prevents the agent from making a free choice". Benjamin Ferguson writes that virtually all libertarians have a standard of fraud, but while libertarians will typically invoke the power of a state to prohibit such acts, libertarians who are anarchists may deny that prohibition of such immoral acts is enforceable by a state. Alternatively, they may take the weaker position that state-like collectives may be formed to enforce prohibitions, but the collective must dissolve once its purpose is fulfilled.
== Influences == The intellectual lineage of anarcho-capitalism draws significantly from the 18th-century French Physiocrats, such as Turgot and Mercier de la Rivière. They advocated for the "empire of nature and reason" over the arbitrary authority of the sovereign, popularizing the maxim "laissez faire, laissez passer". Their belief that "the world runs by itself" through a self-regulating natural order provided the early rationalist foundation for the claim that society can function harmoniously without state intervention. Murray Rothbard has listed different ideologies of which his interpretations have influenced anarcho-capitalism. This includes his interpretation of anarchism, and more precisely individualist anarchism; classical liberalism and the Austrian School of economic thought. Scholars additionally associate anarcho-capitalism with neo-classical liberalism, radical neoliberalism and right-libertarianism.
=== Anarchism ===