The Mechanisms of Freedom is a libertarian bestseller by renowned economist and anarcho-capitalist David Friedman. The book argues for a free society organized on the basis of private property, on individual rights and voluntary cooperation, with little or no government. The book answers the most important question that worries everyone on both the left and the right: how will public goods be created without the state, without coercion? And how will these goods be created without robbery, without forcibly seizing income from the population? The purpose of the book is to convince the reader that a libertarian society will be both free and prosperous, that institutions of private property are such mechanisms of freedom that allow each person to live their lives in a way that he himself considers appropriate.