In Defense of Counterfeiting Illegitimate Money: Rejoinder to Murphy and Machaj

摘要

Counterfeiting legitimate money is, and ought to be, a crime, not only under the libertarian law code but under the rules and regulations of all civilized orders. But what about counterfeiting money that is per se illegitimate; that is, is itself counterfeit? Is that a licit human action? The present article argues, somewhat paradoxically, that it is. It offers a counterpart to two authors-Murphy (2006) and Machaj (2007)-who take the opposite point of view.