I can give you several examples of elaborate anarchical models (Machinery of Freedom, or a bunch at Lewrockwell.com) – with absolutely no evidence the market would produce private arbitration courts faster than thieves and assassin’s guilds.

Their big(headed) idea is “the market will solve everything”, including private property rights and contract interpretation which precede and are conditions for the market to function. Or simple trust (as someone asks in a barter economy, you need to trust the vendor’s word on how old the fish you are buying). Who needs trust when we have FICO?

The market has its place, but so does the church and volunteer societies (which probably should be the largest), with government as a backstop in case the other two fail.

Example: Buying stolen goods is easy if the goods are at Walmart and the theft occurs deep within China. Getting a mortgage is easy if you don’t have to talk to a banker who might know you too well. Yet this social web of trust is necessary, but neither government nor market.

We lack community. That must be regained, as either a market/corporatist dystopia or a government tyrannical dystopia would not be desired by anyone sane.