Murray Rothbard was a great economist[1], and a disaster when it came to politics.
A while ago, I came across this article, about The Godfather I & II and other Mafia movies. A few quotes:
The key to The Godfathers and to success in the Mafia genre is the realization and dramatic portrayal of the fact that the Mafia, although leading a life outside the law, is, at its best, simply entrepreneurs and businessmen supplying the consumers with goods and services of which they have been unaccountably deprived by a Puritan WASP culture. […]
Hence the systemic violence of Mafia life. Violence, in The Godfather films, is never engaged in for the Hell of it, or for random kicks; the point is that since the government police and courts will not enforce contracts they deem to be illegal, debts incurred in the Mafia world have to be…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Sep 28, 2014 @ 23:14:32
Thanks for sharing!
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