| Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice | Edward P. Stringham (Ed.) | 2007 | Transaction Publishers | Anthology of key texts on private governance, polycentric law, and anarcho-capitalist theory. | Assembling the empirical and theoretical case that voluntary private institutions can replace state monopolies. |
| Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life | Edward Stringham | 2015 | Oxford University Press | Empirical study of how private governance institutions create and enforce rules without state involvement. | Demonstrating that complex social and economic order can emerge and persist through purely voluntary private institutions. |
| The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier | Terry L. Anderson & Peter J. Hill | 2004 | Stanford Economics and Finance | Economic analysis showing how decentralized property rights were enforced on the American frontier without the state. | Dismantling the false dilemma between lawlessness and an expansive state enforcement apparatus in newly settled territories. |
| The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society | David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, & Alexander Tabarrok (Eds.) | 2002 | University of Michigan Press | Historical volume documenting how private communities successfully engineered infrastructure and mutual aid without the state. | Overcoming the myth that essential municipal goods inherently require a coercive tax monopoly. |