Center for a Stateless Society
A Left Market Anarchist Think Tank & Media Center

David S. D'Amato

David S. D'Amato is the Benjamin R. Tucker Distinguished Research Scholar in Anarchist Economic Theory at the Center for a Stateless Society (c4ss.org). D'Amato is an attorney and holds a J.D. from New England School of Law and an LL.M. in Global Law and Technology from Suffolk University Law School. A Boston native, D'Amato now lives and writes in Chicago, Illinois.

Website: http://www.individualistanarchist.com

Libertà o Autorità? Un Utile Spettro Politico
09 Jul 2015
Italian & Stateless Embassies
The Free Market as Class Warfare on Feed 44
25 Jun 2015
Feed 44
Policy Research and the Limits of Statistical Utilitarianism
28 May 2015
Feature Articles
Cuidado com os reformistas libertários
21 May 2015
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
Beware of Wonkish Libertarianism
21 May 2015
Feature Articles
Liberty or Authority? A Useful Political Spectrum
19 May 2015
Feature Articles
Um novo léxico para a liberdade
18 May 2015
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
Jeff Riggenbach Reads: The Anarchism of Despair on Feed 44
16 May 2015
Feed 44
Toward a New Lexicon of Liberty
13 May 2015
Commentary
Sharpton’s Progressivism is Authoritarian Nationalism
03 May 2015
Commentary
Baltimoreans Pushed to Their Limits
28 Apr 2015
Commentary
Libero Mercato Come Lotta di Classe
19 Apr 2015
Italian & Stateless Embassies
O livre mercado como luta de classes
13 Apr 2015
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
The Free Market as Class Warfare
10 Apr 2015
Commentary
Imagining Patterns
15 Feb 2015
Books and Reviews
The Anarchism of Despair
30 Jan 2015
Books and Reviews
The Biggest, Baddest Gang in Town
29 Dec 2014
Commentary
A advertência de A Revolução dos Bichos: a desigualdade importa
20 Dec 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
Schiavitù Salariale e Sfruttamento Sono Libera Impresa?
15 Dec 2014
Italian & Stateless Embassies
The Warning of Animal Farm: Inequality Matters
04 Dec 2014
Feature Articles
Wage Slavery and Sweatshops as Free Enterprise?
30 Nov 2014
Commentary
Lo Stato non Ha Diritto di Fare Alcunché
20 Nov 2014
Italian & Stateless Embassies
O caminho libertário para o igualitarismo
17 Nov 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
The Libertarian Road to Egalitarianism
14 Nov 2014
Commentary
Monopoly Privilege as “Individual Rights”
05 Nov 2014
Commentary
Changing the Narrative in India: What are Free Markets?
04 Nov 2014
Commentary
Inequality and the Federal Reserve: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
27 Oct 2014
Feature Articles
Politica: Fuori Moda per una Buona Ragione
16 Oct 2014
Italian & Stateless Embassies
Azuis ou vermelhos, eles só querem saber das verdinhas
15 Oct 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
Blue or Red, They’re All About the Green
13 Oct 2014
Commentary
Outside of Libertarianism: Corporate Capitalism Doesn’t Belong to Us
11 Oct 2014
Feature Articles
The State Has No Right To Do Anything
09 Oct 2014
Feature Articles
Open Competition as “Competition Law”
06 Oct 2014
Commentary
Perceptions of Power
02 Oct 2014
Feature Articles
A política está fora de moda — com razão
29 Sep 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
Politics, Out of Style for Good Reason
27 Sep 2014
Commentary
A anarquia como meio-termo
18 Sep 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
“It takes money to make money”
18 Sep 2014
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
The Vampire of Practical Politics
16 Sep 2014
Commentary
The Black Hole of the American Injustice System
13 Sep 2014
Commentary
Alle Radici della Disuguaglianza: Libero Mercato o Stato?
13 Sep 2014
Italian & Stateless Embassies
On Inequality, Injustice, and Anti-Capitalism
11 Sep 2014
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Anarchy as the Golden Mean
11 Sep 2014
Feature Articles
A posse da liberdade: A economia política de Benjamin R. Tucker
10 Sep 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
A raiz da desigualdade: o mercado ou o estado?
09 Sep 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
The Root of Inequality: The Free Market or the State?
09 Sep 2014
Commentary
Possession of Liberty: The Political Economy of Benjamin R. Tucker
05 Sep 2014
Feature Articles
O individualismo de esquerda
01 Sep 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
Estados Policiais Unidos da América
26 Aug 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
The United Police States of America
24 Aug 2014
Commentary
Paul Krugman e as fantasias libertárias
20 Aug 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
Krugman on Libertarian Fantasies
20 Aug 2014
Commentary
Left Wing Individualism
11 Aug 2014
Feature Articles
Tolerance vs. Relativism
30 Jul 2014
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Open the Borders Now and Forever
14 Jul 2014
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
The New Enclosure: Erecting Gates and Tolls in the Information Age
08 Jul 2014
Feature Articles
Dissecting Hobby Lobby
01 Jul 2014
Commentary
To Hasten the Demise of the State
28 Jun 2014
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
The Avarice of Corporate Power
26 Jun 2014
Commentary
La Dottrina Sociale tra Cattolici e Libertari
19 Jun 2014
Italian & Stateless Embassies
The Things We Do Together?
15 Jun 2014
Commentary
Libertários e os ensinamentos sociais católicos
10 Jun 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
The Libertarian and Catholic Social Teachings
10 Jun 2014
Commentary
The Corporate Welfare Bank of the United States
27 May 2014
Commentary
Benjamin Tucker and the Individualist Anarchists (with David D’Amato)
08 May 2014
Media Appearances
The Great Writ
17 Apr 2014
Books and Reviews
Avowals of Selfhood: Review of Egoism
09 Apr 2014
Books and Reviews
A nova economia e o princípio dos custos
19 Mar 2014
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
The New Economy and the Cost Principle
18 Mar 2014
Commentary
Of Fantasy or History
16 Jan 2014
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Die Trommeln des Krieges
22 Dec 2013
Deutsch & Stateless Embassies
Define “Libertarian Paradise”
01 Oct 2013
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Doublethink at New Heights: Libertarians for Conscription?
10 Sep 2013
Commentary
No War But Class War
09 Sep 2013
Commentary
Privilegien und Prunksucht in der Politik
03 Jun 2013
Deutsch & Stateless Embassies
Capitalism as Protectionism
04 May 2013
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Competition and the “Complexity Tax”
09 Apr 2013
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Prescription for Competition
03 Apr 2013
Commentary
Bailout Capitalism, Episode 34721: Cyprus
25 Feb 2013
Commentary
Airlines Merger: Competition vs. the Great Trusts
15 Feb 2013
Commentary
Coloring “Competition”
11 Feb 2013
Commentary
A License to Kill
06 Feb 2013
Commentary
Our Adjustment to Conquest
02 Feb 2013
Commentary
The “Death of Private Property”?
30 Jan 2013
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Privilege and Pomposity in Politics
01 Dec 2012
Commentary
A Administração do Inadministrável
24 Oct 2012
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
O Estado: Terrorismo Institucionalizado
18 Oct 2012
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
“Inclusive Capitalism”: A Contradiction in Terms
18 Oct 2012
Commentary
The Elements of Empire
15 Oct 2012
Commentary
The Servile Senate
13 Oct 2012
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Новый Год всемирного протеста
03 Oct 2012
Russian & Stateless Embassies
“Propriedade Privada” Estatista É Furto
30 Sep 2012
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
The Fractionated Society of the State
25 Sep 2012
Commentary
Reconsidering Redistribution: One Libertarian’s View
23 Sep 2012
Commentary
Getting Competition Wrong
22 Sep 2012
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
“Freedom” by List, Index, and Report
19 Sep 2012
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Capangas da Classe Criminosa Organizada
18 Sep 2012
Portuguese & Stateless Embassies
Statism, a Gangland Turf War
18 Sep 2012
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
“Capitalism” by Any Other Name…
17 Sep 2012
Stigmergy - C4SS Blog
Autodeterminación en Costa de Marfil
12 Sep 2012
Spanish & Stateless Embassies
La Política del Hambre
05 Sep 2012
Spanish & Stateless Embassies
Los Egipcios Deben Desconfiar del Concepto de Unidad Política
03 Sep 2012
Spanish & Stateless Embassies
El Mito del Vacío de Poder
02 Sep 2012
Spanish & Stateless Embassies
El Estado es Terrorismo Institucionalizado
01 Sep 2012
Spanish & Stateless Embassies
¿Qué Tal un Poco de Verdadera Austeridad?
25 Aug 2012
Spanish & Stateless Embassies
China: ¿República Popular o Elitista?
22 Aug 2012
Spanish & Stateless Embassies
La Vida Humana, Otro Costo Socializado
20 Aug 2012
Spanish & Stateless Embassies
Irán y la Cultura del Miedo
15 Aug 2012
Spanish & Stateless Embassies
Dissecting the Corporate Creature
16 Jul 2012
Commentary
The Court and the “Ring of Capitalists”
03 Jul 2012
Commentary
How About Some Real “Austerity?”
25 Jun 2012
Commentary
IP Monopolism as “Free Enterprise”
19 Jun 2012
Commentary
New Rules, High Costs and Big Business
18 Jun 2012
Commentary
The State and Capital: A Love Affair
20 May 2012
Commentary
The IP Wars as “Competition”
15 May 2012
Commentary
The Source of Structural Inequality
06 May 2012
Commentary
Don’t Worry About Occupy
02 May 2012
Commentary
Musings on May Day
30 Apr 2012
Commentary
The Rhetoric and Reality of “Reform”
15 Apr 2012
Commentary
The Accumulation of Freedom
09 Apr 2012
Books and Reviews
The Modern-Day Mercantile System
02 Apr 2012
Commentary
Big Profits for China’s “Big Four”
30 Mar 2012
Commentary
“Moral Crime” in the Total State
29 Mar 2012
Commentary
Corporate Welfare Sees Its Reflection and Grimaces
26 Mar 2012
Commentary
Getting Your Due in America
22 Mar 2012
Commentary
The Truth About “Free Trade”
18 Mar 2012
Commentary
The Fed: The Keeper of Monopoly
15 Mar 2012
Commentary
The Ethos of Empire
26 Feb 2012
Commentary
The Motor of Motown Capitalism
21 Feb 2012
Commentary
Anarchy Not Apathy
20 Feb 2012
Commentary
The New Enclosures
15 Feb 2012
Commentary
Romney & Co. vs. “the Very Poor”
06 Feb 2012
Commentary
The Plague of “Political Will”
01 Feb 2012
Commentary
End War by Ending the State
30 Jan 2012
Commentary
The Lowdown on “Vulture Capitalism”
19 Jan 2012
Commentary
The Psychology of the (Syrian) State
15 Jan 2012
Commentary
Secession: The Instrument of Dividing Authority
12 Jan 2012
Commentary
Election 2012: Pacifier for the Proles
04 Jan 2012
Commentary
Labor and the Living Wage
28 Dec 2011
Commentary
A New Year of Global Protest
26 Dec 2011
Commentary
“Systemic Risk” for Profit
23 Dec 2011
Commentary
Starvenomics in North Korea and Elsewhere
22 Dec 2011
Commentary
General Idea of the Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
20 Dec 2011
Feature Articles
“New Nationalism” and the Corporate Economy
09 Dec 2011
Commentary
A New Meaning for “Bank Robbers”
02 Dec 2011
Commentary
Doing the Math on Federal Regs
22 Nov 2011
Commentary
Occupy Critics: Bricks in the Corporate Wall
20 Nov 2011
Commentary
Medallions and Monopolies
17 Nov 2011
Commentary
Addicted to Incarceration
15 Nov 2011
Commentary
“Austerity” in Practice
12 Nov 2011
Commentary
Corruption as Political Economy
10 Nov 2011
Commentary
Big Business: Good for America?
06 Nov 2011
Commentary
To Strike at the Root, You Have to Find It
26 Oct 2011
Commentary
Robbing Us Blind
23 Oct 2011
Commentary
The New “Mercantile System”
16 Oct 2011
Commentary
The Science of Anarchism
10 Oct 2011
Commentary
Wall Street Greed and Accountability
01 Oct 2011
Commentary
Thugs of the Organized Criminal Class
27 Sep 2011
Commentary
Politics as Rich Man’s Sport
25 Sep 2011
Commentary
The Making of Monopoly
23 Sep 2011
Commentary
Back Room Deals Revealed
21 Sep 2011
Commentary
Fire the Wall St. Plutocracy
19 Sep 2011
Commentary
Authority Breeds Inequality
18 Sep 2011
Commentary
The Legal Rackets Behind the Drug War
15 Sep 2011
Commentary
The True “Spread the Wealth Philosophy”
12 Sep 2011
Commentary
The State: Institutionalized Terrorism
11 Sep 2011
Commentary
Cutting Through “Free Trade” Rhetoric
30 Aug 2011
Commentary
Condemning Politics Itself
28 Aug 2011
Commentary
Achieving Healthcare Abundance
27 Aug 2011
Commentary
What to Make of “Capitalism”
26 Aug 2011
Commentary
“The Machine of Industrial Era Education”
25 Aug 2011
Commentary
Getting Libya “Governed Right”
24 Aug 2011
Commentary
Real Welfare Reform
23 Aug 2011
Commentary
Bought and Paid For
20 Aug 2011
Commentary
The Invariable State
31 Jul 2011
Commentary
The Terminally Ill Economy
30 Jul 2011
Commentary
The Labor Question in Context
23 Jul 2011
Commentary
More Government Does Not Mean “Independence”
23 Jul 2011
Commentary
Crowd-Sourcing the Law
23 Jul 2011
Feature Articles
Their System is Breaking
22 Jul 2011
Commentary
Chaos in the Streets of Mumbai
14 Jul 2011
Commentary
Myth of the “Power Vacuum”
13 Jul 2011
Commentary
Message to Syria: All Rule is Foreign Rule
12 Jul 2011
Commentary
Egyptians Should Beware Political Unity
10 Jul 2011
Commentary
China: The People’s Republic or the Elite’s Republic?
09 Jul 2011
Commentary
Laughing All the Way to the Bank
06 Jul 2011
Commentary
Be Against the Law
01 Jul 2011
Commentary
What Are We “Investing” In?
29 Jun 2011
Commentary
Big Business 101: How Not to Compete
28 Jun 2011
Commentary
New York is No Hero
26 Jun 2011
Commentary
No Good Guys in the War on Drugs
24 Jun 2011
Commentary
How About a Real “Drawdown?”
22 Jun 2011
Commentary
Syria and the “Popular Will”
20 Jun 2011
Commentary
Virtual Picket Lines Test Labor Economics
19 Jun 2011
Commentary
The Fleecing of Greece
18 Jun 2011
Commentary
Publicopoly and the Sale of America
17 Jun 2011
Commentary
The State’s Borders, Our Cage
15 Jun 2011
Commentary
Soft Economy For Us, Record Profits for the Rich
14 Jun 2011
Commentary
The Kind of “Public Service” We Can Do Without
13 Jun 2011
Commentary
Syria Reveals the Nature of the State
12 Jun 2011
Commentary
Big Business Getting Something for Nothing
11 Jun 2011
Commentary
Banking Cartel “Consumer Protection”
10 Jun 2011
Commentary
Counter-Power and the Arab Spring
09 Jun 2011
Commentary
Scots Splitting From the State?
08 Jun 2011
Commentary
A Choice Between Extremes or a False Choice?
07 Jun 2011
Commentary
Vote No-Confidence . . . In the State!
06 Jun 2011
Commentary
Anti-Poverty = Anti-State
03 Jun 2011
Commentary
The Syrian State vs. Syrian Society
03 Jun 2011
Commentary
Libya and G8 Hypocrisy: The State Must Go
02 Jun 2011
Commentary
Strauss-Kahn: As Sleazy as the IMF in General
21 May 2011
Commentary
The Existing Disorder
19 May 2011
Commentary
Equitable Commerce for the Worker
17 May 2011
Commentary
No States, No Borders, Part 2
14 May 2011
Commentary
The Politics of Hunger
13 May 2011
Commentary
No States, No Borders, Part 1
12 May 2011
Commentary
Government is Civil War
11 May 2011
Commentary
Profiting From Our Loss
09 May 2011
Commentary
The Taliban Won’t Negotiate With Terrorists
05 May 2011
Commentary
After bin Laden, A Greater Enemy Remains
03 May 2011
Commentary
The No-State Solution
01 May 2011
Commentary
The Crimes of National Pride
29 Apr 2011
Commentary
Fed Up With Statist Banking
28 Apr 2011
Commentary
No Masters, Not Even Ron Paul
27 Apr 2011
Commentary
Japan’s Broken Windows
25 Apr 2011
Commentary
Secession Down to the Individual
21 Apr 2011
Commentary
I Vote Revolution
19 Apr 2011
Commentary
Removing Obstacles or Erecting Them?
15 Apr 2011
Commentary
Capitalism: Unfortunately Alive and Well
14 Apr 2011
Commentary
International Crime Syndicate Targets Libya
13 Apr 2011
Commentary
The Drug War: Growing the Green
07 Apr 2011
Commentary
Shutdown Can’t Come Soon Enough
06 Apr 2011
Commentary
The Foreclosure Mess: Another Crisis of State Capitalism
05 Apr 2011
Commentary
Self-Determination and Ivory Coast
04 Apr 2011
Commentary
“Renegade History” Against the “Respectable” Bosses
02 Apr 2011
Books and Reviews
The State’s Money Trees
01 Apr 2011
Commentary
The Drums of Wars
31 Mar 2011
Commentary
The Real Terrorists
30 Mar 2011
Commentary
For Our Own Good
29 Mar 2011
Commentary
Human Life: Another Dispersed Cost
27 Mar 2011
Commentary
“Meritocracy” in the Middle East
25 Mar 2011
Commentary
Syria’s Old Boy Network
24 Mar 2011
Commentary
Revolution Not Replication
23 Mar 2011
Commentary
Bahrain’s Blame Game
21 Mar 2011
Commentary
The “Liberation” of Libya
20 Mar 2011
Commentary
The Fanciful Idea of Statist “Efficiency”
15 Mar 2011
Commentary
Workers Against the Bosses’ Economy
14 Mar 2011
Commentary
To Vote Is To Choose Your Masters
09 Mar 2011
Commentary
Afghanistan and the Neoliberal Empire
08 Mar 2011
Commentary
Iran and the Culture of Fear
06 Mar 2011
Commentary
The Free Market’s Regulatory Model
03 Mar 2011
Commentary
Socialism: The Qaddafi Version
24 Feb 2011
Commentary
Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin, Part II
23 Feb 2011
Commentary
In Libya and Elsewhere, the State Depends on Submission
22 Feb 2011
Commentary
Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin
21 Feb 2011
Commentary
“Shared Value” and State Capitalism
16 Feb 2011
Commentary
Contaminants from the Corporate State
15 Feb 2011
Commentary
All of Statism is Imperialism
14 Feb 2011
Commentary
All Aboard the Money Train
09 Feb 2011
Commentary
The Very Literal “Conquest of Bread”
04 Feb 2011
Commentary
The “Reform” of Kings and Masters
02 Feb 2011
Commentary
The False Menace of Socialism
31 Jan 2011
Commentary
The Greenspan Version of “Free Market”
29 Jan 2011
Commentary
Organized Crime Fights Organized Crime?
26 Jan 2011
Commentary
The Revolving-Door Polity of Corporatism
25 Jan 2011
Commentary
The Pretense of “Austerity”
20 Jan 2011
Commentary
The People’s Republic of Crony Capitalism
18 Jan 2011
Commentary
No Work for the Weary, Part II
12 Jan 2011
Commentary
Managing the Unmanageable
10 Jan 2011
Commentary
No Work for the Weary
09 Jan 2011
Commentary
Sudan and the Democracy of the Market
06 Jan 2011
Commentary
Statist “Private Property” Is Theft
05 Jan 2011
Commentary
The Elephant(s) in the Room for the GOP
04 Jan 2011
Commentary
Renting Our Lives from the State
03 Jan 2011
Commentary
Bribery, Thy Name Is Government
29 Dec 2010
Commentary
Speed Bumps on the Information Superhighway
27 Dec 2010
Commentary
Greece Ignores Labor’s True Value
23 Dec 2010
Commentary
Iraq’s New Government Is As Old As Time
22 Dec 2010
Commentary
The USSR Died, But the State Survived
20 Dec 2010
Commentary
State-Corporate Healthcare: No “Right to Choose”
14 Dec 2010
Commentary
Cartelization Harries the UK Student
09 Dec 2010
Commentary
The Ivory Coast and “Power-Sharing”
07 Dec 2010
Commentary
The State’s Corporate Wasteland
06 Dec 2010
Commentary
Corporate Welfare Disguised As “Free Trade”
05 Dec 2010
Commentary
The Empire Drones On
02 Dec 2010
Commentary
The State Serves Poison As Food
01 Dec 2010
Commentary
Shielding Global Statism
30 Nov 2010
Commentary
Torture: The Great American Export
18 Nov 2010
Commentary
Privacy or State Monopoly on Info?
17 Nov 2010
Commentary
The Crime Families Meet in Korea
12 Nov 2010
Commentary
Israel, At it Again
11 Nov 2010
Commentary
To Fight Terror, Fight the State
08 Nov 2010
Commentary
QE2: The Fed’s Latest Scam
04 Nov 2010
Commentary
Getting to Gridlock
03 Nov 2010
Commentary
Police Abuse is the Rule, Not the Exception
02 Nov 2010
Commentary
Obamacare Feeds Insurance Oligarchs
26 Oct 2010
Commentary
WikiLeaks Removes the Cloak
25 Oct 2010
Commentary
Time to Rescind the Social Contract
22 Oct 2010
Commentary
Liberty is the Mother of Equality (And Vice Versa)
21 Oct 2010
Commentary
Mortgage Liens On Our Lives
11 Oct 2010
Commentary
Sounding Off
06 Oct 2010
Commentary
The Pretended Populism of Politics
02 Oct 2010
Commentary
The State Never Sleeps
29 Sep 2010
Commentary
The Nerve to Break Ranks
25 Sep 2010
Commentary
The Perils of “Reaching Across the Aisle”
23 Sep 2010
Commentary
The Anti-Establishment Establishment
16 Sep 2010
Commentary
The Political Alchemy of Jobs
07 Sep 2010
Commentary
Peace Talks For War
04 Sep 2010
Commentary
A Distinction Without A Difference
01 Sep 2010
Commentary
The State’s Bad Math
28 Aug 2010
Commentary
Anarchy as Order
26 Aug 2010
Feature Articles