Since I have started talking about experimental confirmations of the libertarian doctrine, it is worth mentioning mathematical modeling as a way of verifying claims.
I recently read a very good article on Freedom Pride about how a model was built with fairly realistic assumptions, and depending on the input data, it demonstrated what works better: contractual jurisdictions, democracy, or ancap.
The point of modeling is to see how the costs for members of society decrease depending on what mechanisms they have for adapting to and influencing society.
The conclusions in the article are written in rather cumbersome language, so I will translate them for myself in simpler terms.
- Democracy is a poor mechanism for optimizing one’s costs of existing in a society. Here, I cannot help but refer to my own longread on the subject.
- Instead of seeking changes through democratic mechanisms, it is much more reliable to reduce costs by voting with your feet—leaving the society that does not suit you and moving to one that does.
- The lower the relative costs of financing public goods, the more advantageous ancap is. The higher they are, the more advantageous contractual jurisdictions are. And for this last conclusion, I am very grateful to the authors of the article: they claim this is an argument for CJ, but for me, it means that as technical progress advances, ancap will become increasingly advantageous.
